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| 5374888982 | patronage | one of the key rewards used by political machines | 0 | |
| 5374888983 | Pendleton Civil Service Act | created a federal civil service so hiring & promotion would be based on merit instead of patronage | 1 | |
| 5374888984 | civil service | a system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and desire to create a nonpartisan gov service | 2 | |
| 5374888985 | merit principle | using exams to hire government workers; all workers should be qualified | 3 | |
| 5374888986 | Hatch Act | federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partison politics | 4 | |
| 5374888987 | Office of Personnel Management | office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate ruless in the process | 5 | |
| 5374888988 | GS (General Schedule) rating | a schedule for federal employees - salaries depend on rating and experience | 6 | |
| 5374888989 | Senior Executive Service | an elite cadre of about 11,000 federal government mangers | 7 | |
| 5374888990 | bureaucracy | a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, behaves with impersonality | 8 | |
| 5374888991 | independent regulatory agency | responsible for some sector of the economy; enforcing rules and judging disputes | 9 | |
| 5374888992 | governmental corporations | government organization that provides a service that could be provided by the private sector and typically charges for its services | 10 | |
| 5374888993 | independent executive agencies | government not accounted for by cabinet departments independent regulatory agencies and governemnt coporations | 11 | |
| 5374888994 | policy implementation | policymaking stage - between establishment and consequences | 12 | |
| 5374888995 | standard operating procedures | used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organiztation | 13 | |
| 5374888996 | administrative discretion | the authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem | 14 | |
| 5374888997 | street-level bureaucrats | people in constant contact with the public | 15 | |
| 5374888998 | regulation | the use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector | 16 | |
| 5374888999 | deregulation | Lifting of restrictions on business industry and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to administer | 17 | |
| 5374889000 | command-and-control policy | system of regulation - government tells businessess how to reach certain goals | 18 | |
| 5374889001 | incentive system | a more effective & efficient policy than command & control | 19 | |
| 5374889002 | executive orders | regulations originating from the executive branch presidents can use to control bureaucracy | 20 | |
| 5374889003 | iron triangles | relationship between a bureaucracy, an interest group, and a congressional committee | 21 | |
| 5374889004 | political appointees | "any employee who is appointed by the President, the Vice President, or agency head". In the United States, political appointees are subject to heavy ethical restrictions, more so than their elected counterparts. | 22 | |
| 5374889005 | red tape | excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities, especially in public business. | 23 | |
| 5374889006 | spoils system | the practice of a successful political party giving public office to its supporters. | 24 | |
| 5374889007 | whistleblower | a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity. | 25 |
