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| 4758173914 | Bureaucracy | According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses talk specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality. | 0 | |
| 4758173915 | Patronage | One of the key inducements used by party machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract i one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone. | 1 | |
| 4758174400 | Pendleton Civil Service Act | Passes in 1883, an act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage. | 2 | |
| 4758174401 | Civil Service | A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service. | 3 | |
| 4758175039 | Merit Principle | The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill. | 4 | |
| 4758177222 | Hatch Act | federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics while on duty or for employees in sensitive positions at any time. | 5 | |
| 4758177223 | Office of Personal Management (OPM) | The office in charge if hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process. | 6 | |
| 4758177272 | GS (General Schedule) Rating | A schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience. | 7 | |
| 4758178804 | Senior Executive Service | An elite cadre of about 9,000 government managers at the top of the civil service system. | 8 | |
| 4758178805 | Independent Regulatory Commission | A regulatory agency with responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest in some sector of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules. | 9 | |
| 4758179527 | Government Corporation | A government organization that, like business corporations, provides a service that could be delivered by the private sector and typically charges for its services. The U.S. Postal Service is an example. | 10 | |
| 4758179528 | Independent Executive Agency | The government agencies not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions by the president and serve at the president's pleasure. NASA is an example. | 11 | |
| 4758179971 | Policy Implementation | The stage of policymaking between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of the policy for the people affected. Implementation involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating, ongoing program. | 12 | |
| 4758181490 | Standing Operating Procedures | Better known as SOPs, these procedures for everyday decision making enable bureaucrats to bring efficiency and uniformity to the running of complex organizations. Uniformity promotes fairness ad makes personnel interchangeable. | 13 | |
| 4758181491 | 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 a case. | 14 | |
| 4758181616 | Street-level Bureaucrats | A phrase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion. | 15 | |
| 4758183076 | Regulation | The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector. | 16 | |
| 4758183655 | Deregulation | The lifting of government restrictions on business industry, and professional activities. | 17 | |
| 4758184039 | 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. | 18 | |
| 4758184508 | Incentive System | An alternative to command-and-control, with market-like strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy. | 19 | |
| 4758184509 | Executive Orders | Regulations originating with the executive branch. Executive orders are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy. | 20 | |
| 4758186117 | Iron Triangles | Also known as subgovernments, a mutually dependent, mutually advantageous relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees. Iron triangles dominate some areas of domestic policymaking. | 21 |
