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22 Cards in this Set
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Bureaucracy |
according to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality |
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Patronage |
one of the key inducements used by party machines, one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone
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Pendleton Civil Service Act |
passed in 1883, an act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage
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Civil Service |
a system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service
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Merit Principle |
the idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill
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Hatch Act |
a federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics while on duty or for employees in sensitive positions at any time
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Office of Personnel Management |
the office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process
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GS (General Schedule) Rating
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a schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS1 to GS18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience
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Senior Executive Service |
an elite cadre of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system
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Independent Regulatory Commission |
a government agency with responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public inters in some sector of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules
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Government Corporations |
a government organization that, like business corporations, provides a service that could be delivered by the private sector and typically charges for its services (U.S. postal service)
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Independent Executive Agencies |
the government agencies not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions by the president and serve at the president's pleasure (NASA)
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Policy Implementation |
the stage of policymaking between the establishment of a policy for the people affected, implementation involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating ongoing program
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Standard Operating Procedures |
better known as SOP's, these procedures for everyday decision making enable bureaucrats to bring efficiency and uniformity to the running of complex organizations, promotes fairness and makes personnel interchangeable
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Administrative Discretion |
the authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem, discretion is greatest when routines, or standard operating procedures, do not fit the case
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Street-level Bureaucrats |
a phrase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion |
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Regulation |
the use of governmental authority to control of change some practice in the private sector
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Deregulation |
the lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities
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Command-and-Control Policy |
the typical system of regulation whereby government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these commands are followed, and punishes offenders
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Incentive System |
an alternative to command-and-control, with marketlike strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy
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Executive Orders |
regulations origination with the executive branch, one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy
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Iron Triangles |
also known as subgovernments, a mutually dependent, mutually advantageous relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees, dominate some areas of domestic policy making |
