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| 291507651 | bureaucracy | a large, complex organization in which employees have specific job responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority | |
| 291507652 | bureaucrats | employees of a bureaucracy, usually meaning a government bureaucracy | |
| 291507653 | departments | the biggest units of the executive branch, covering a broad area of government responsibility. The heads of the departments, or secretaries, form the president's cabinet | |
| 291507654 | independent agencies | executive agencies that are not part of a cabinet department | |
| 291507655 | regulatory commissions | agencies of the executive branch of government that control or direct some aspect of the economy | |
| 291507656 | government corporations | government agencies that perform services that might be provided by the private sector but that either involve insufficient financial incentive or are better provided when they are somehow linked with government | |
| 291507657 | civil service | the system by which most appointments to the federal bureaucracy are made, to ensure that government jobs are filled on the basis of merit and that employees are not fired for political reasons | |
| 291507658 | administrative discretion | the latitude that Congress gives agencies to make policy in the spirit of their legislative mandate | |
| 291507659 | rule making | the administrative process that results in the issuance of regulations by government agencies | |
| 291507660 | regulations | adminstrative rules that guide the operation of a government program | |
| 291507661 | incrementalism | policymaking characterized by a series of decisions, each instituting modest change | |
| 291507662 | norms | an organizations informal, unwritten rules that guide individual behavior | |
| 291507663 | implementation | the process of putting specific policies into operation | |
| 291507664 | regulation | government intervention in the workings of a business market to promote some socially desired goal | |
| 291507665 | deregulation | a bureaucratic reform by which the government reduces its role as a regulator of business | |
| 291507668 | competition and outsourcing | procedures that allow private contractors to bid for jobs previously held exclusively by government employees | |
| 291507670 | Government Performance and Results Act | a law requiring each government agency to implement quantifiable standards to measure its performance in meeting stated program goals |
