Bureaucrat

sexual orientation, and disability that could potentially influence behavior (Kelly, 1998). These characteristics outline the context in which representative bureaucracy is necessary, and by the importance of the characteristics, some researchers say that representative bureaucracy is always necessary. In addition to when representative bureaucracy should be used, Meier and Bohte (2001) find that representative bureaucracy should be used when “the bureaucrats in question have discretion”, “policy decision have direct relevance to the passively represented groups”, and when there is a way to “link the bureaucrat to a specific policy output”. In addition, bureaucrats typically serving in street- and upper-level bureaucracy based positions should also make use of representative bureaucracy. Given the hierarchical positioning of bureaucrats, they will, for the most part, always have discretion over…

The federal bureaucracy main job is to implement policy, which in turn, has a huge effect on policymaking. Most bureaucrats work directly with congress writing rules and regulations, monitor federal candidates money raised and encourages all political parties to work in unison. Controlling the bureaucracy can be exhausting because of the vast size of employees and maintaining a balance of duties performs can create inefficiencies in the policymaking process. Bureaucrats also hold the upper hand…

Q1: What is a government bureaucrat and are they essential to good governance in America? In simple terms, a government bureaucrat is someone who works in any kind of administrative capacity inside our government. Government bureaucrat preform a wide range of different task like teaching, monitoring federal candidates, and most often desk work. Most importantly their job is to implement government policy by either writing rules and regulations or administering policies directly to people. There…

The Street-Level Bureaucracy: The Critical Role of Street-Level Bureaucrats by Michael Lipsky was written to explain the importance of the role of public service workers when delivering government services to the public. The involvement of public administration in difficulties that are currently affecting the undeserved and have made the government to take responsibilities on public safety, health and security. Lipsky believed that government workers play a significant role in our society by…

resources that street-level bureaucrats have to work are very inadequate. Yet, the demand from the public, or clients, is always increasing. As a result, street-level bureaucrats are constraints to the resources. Street-level bureaucrats also have broad discretion and that’s because of the constraints they are force upon. The resources that they have to work with also make the goals of street-level bureaucrats ambiguous and conflicting. Yet, street-level bureaucrats try to do their best, even…

on the flexibility of agencies, rather than reliance on rewards, punishments, and oversight.” Enfranchising the constituents of presidents and congress through administrative structure and process, we can constrain the bureaucrats. We should clarify each political player’s responsibility and right by regulations and laws with negotiation and bargain. Moreover, we should control the information which can be obtained by bureaucrats, since their decisions are based on information. Additionally,…

The empirical findings in the first paper reflect the theory for which excessive bureaucracy is built upon. The paper ultimately confirms the positive relationship between increased confiscations and an increased police budget, which the paper seeked to prove. It also identifies that the correlation becomes more positive as the jurisdiction size increases. This relationship shows that through reallocating resources the police bureaucrats are capable of benefitting from larger budgets, as well…

(1993) focused on the way political institutions has affected bureaucratic behavior. They explained that bureaucrats go through an adaptation processes in the political environment sending and receiving multiple stimuli and stimulus. Rourke (1991) explained the level of involvement of bureaucratic role in policy development and the way administrative agencies has been impacted by changes in the political arena. Synthesis Punctuations in the Local…

As citizens it can be hard to feel that we can hold these bureaucrats politically accountable for their actions. It is common place to believe that our government is inefficient and in need for reform. This statement is not far from the truth since many bureaucrats become complacent and inflexible within their positions. Citizens are typically left waiting in line winding through a maze of paperwork and rules and regulations. Throughout the 20th century the Office of the President and Congress…

The US President has many powers, but he also has limitations on those powers. One of the primary realms where these powers are exercised is in the control of the federal bureaucracy. However, this control is not absolute, and important limitations shape the extent of presidential authority. Additionally, implementing public policies often relies on the discretion of federal bureaucrats, which brings both benefits and challenges to governance. The powers vested in the President by the…