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| 8693109626 | Bureaucracy | According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality. They govern modern states. | 0 | |
| 8693109629 | Merit System | A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than political patronage. | 1 | |
| 8693109631 | Independent Agency | An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments | 2 | |
| 8693109632 | Government Corporation | A government organization that, like business corporations, provides a service that could be provided by the private sector and typically charges for its services. The U.S. Postal Service is an example. | 3 | |
| 8693109633 | Regulatory Agencies | Independent agencies whose primary mission is to impose limits, restrictions or other obligations on the conduct of individuals or companies in the private sector. | 4 | |
| 8693109634 | Iron Triangle | A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. Iron Triangles dominate some areas of domestic policymaking. | 5 | |
| 8693109638 | Deregulation | The lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to administer. | 6 | |
| 8693109639 | Devolution | The effort to transfer responsibility for many public programs and services from the federal government to the states. | 7 | |
| 8693109642 | Oversight | The effort by Congress, through hearings, investigations, and other techniques, to exercise control over the activities of executive agencies | 8 | |
| 8693109643 | Patronage | One of the key inducements used by political machines. A _____ job, promotion or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone. | 9 | |
| 8693109644 | 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. | 10 | |
| 8693109645 | Civil Service Commission | government agency created by the Pendleton Act of 1883 to fill federal jobs on the basis of merit | 11 | |
| 8693109646 | Hatch Act | A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics. | 12 | |
| 8693109648 | Senior Executive Service (SES) | An elite cadre of about 9,000 federal government managers, established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, who are mostly career officials but include some political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. | 13 | |
| 8693109649 | Office of Personnel Management (OPM) | The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process. | 14 | |
| 8693109650 | Standard Operating Procedures | Better known as SOPs, these procedures are used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations. Uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable. | 15 | |
| 12024874564 | Appropriations Committee | congressional committee that deals with federal spending | 16 | |
| 12024883341 | authorization of spending | These measures state the maximum amount the agency can give on a certain program. | 17 | |
| 12024920761 | Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 | law that replaced the Civil Service Commission with the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board. These agencies are responsible for enforcing existing civil service laws, coordinating the testing of applicants, setting up pay scales, and appointing people to federal jobs. | 18 | |
| 12024949005 | competitive service | Appointment of officials based on selection criteria devised by the employing agency and OPM | 19 | |
| 12024966660 | discretionary authority | The ability of a bureaucracy to choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws. | 20 | |
| 12024977926 | excepted service | Provision for appointing federal offices without going through the competitive service. | 21 | |
| 12025096364 | Freedom of Information Act (1966) | Provides a system for the public to obtain government records, as long as they do not invade individuals' privacy, reveal trade secrets, or endanger military security. | 22 | |
| 12025104821 | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | The arm of the Justice Department that investigates violations of federal law, gathers crime statistics, runs a comprehensive crime laboratory, and helps train local law enforcement officers. | 23 | |
| 12025137245 | Issue network (iron triangle) | A relationship between interest groups, agencies, and congressional committees in a certain policy area | 24 | |
| 12025190227 | legislative veto | ability of congress to override a presidential decision | 25 | |
| 12025213129 | National Performance Review (NPR) | A 1993 effort, led by Vice President Al Gore, to make the bureaucracy work better and cost less. | 26 | |
| 12025219053 | Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs | a unit of the Office of Management and Budget that sets federal policy on statistics and reviews draft rules before publication | 27 | |
| 12025237080 | red tape | complex bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done | 28 | |
| 12025253356 | Spoils System | A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends. | 29 | |
| 12025253357 | Sunshine Act (1976) | requires most federal agencies to hold their meetings in publicly accessible places | 30 | |
| 12025266041 | Whistleblower Protection Act (1989) | This law protects from retaliation from their employers federal employees who tell upper-management, government officials, or the press that their employers are engaged in some unsafe or illegal activity. | 31 |
