AP Government Chapter 15 Flashcards
Bureaucracy AP Government.
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| 6086017707 | Government Corporations | 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. | 0 | |
| 6086017708 | Independent Executive Agencies | Federal agencies not under the cabinet; congress authorizes them, defines their goals, and sets their powers | 1 | |
| 6086017709 | Patronage | one of the key inducements used by party machines. A patronage job, promotion, or contract is one that is given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence alone. | 2 | |
| 6086017710 | Merit principle | the quality of being deserving, the idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skill. | 3 | |
| 6086017711 | Hatch Act | A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics. | 4 | |
| 6086017712 | Pendleton Civil Service Act | 1883 law that created the Civil Service Commission | 5 | |
| 6086017713 | Civil Service | A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service. | 6 | |
| 6086017714 | Office of Personnel Management | The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process. | 7 | |
| 6086017715 | GS rating | a schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience | 8 | |
| 6086017716 | Senior Executive Service | 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. | 9 | |
| 6086017717 | Cabinet Departments | 15 total of various size, status, visibility, and function. They all advise the President, help execute/implement programs; have broad responsibility. Examples: State, Defense, Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Justice | 10 | |
| 6086017718 | Independent Regulatory Commissions | Independent agencies created by Congress, designed to regulate important aspects of the nation's economy, largely beyond the reach of presidential control. | 11 | |
| 6086017720 | Policy Implementation | Translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating program | 12 | |
| 6086017721 | Why Implementations Flunk | Program Design Lack of Clarity Lack of Resources Admin Routine Administrators Dispositions Fragmentation | 13 | |
| 6086017722 | 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. | 14 | |
| 6086017723 | Red Tape | complex bureaucratic rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done | 15 | |
| 6086017724 | Administration Discretion | Authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem, especially when rules do not fit or more than one rule applies. | 16 | |
| 6086017725 | Street-level Bureaucrats | A phrase coined by Michael Lipsky, referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion. | 17 | |
| 6086017726 | Privatization | Government can't act without contractors: they provide surge capacity and specialized skills -Allow officials to brag about decreasing federal work force while expanding the number of people -Competition increases service while decreasing costs | 18 | |
| 6086017727 | Regulation | The use of governmental authority to control or change some practice in the private sector. | 19 | |
| 6086017730 | 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. | 20 | |
| 6086017732 | Executive orders | regulations originating from the executive branch. Executive orders are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy. | 21 | |
| 6086017734 | Iron Triangle | an informal association of federal agency, congressional committee, and interest group that is said to have heavy influence over policy making. | 22 | |
| 6086017735 | Issue Networks | A loose grouping of people and organizations who seek to influence policy formation. | 23 | |
| 6086017738 | Largest part of the bureaucracy | Department of Defense | 24 | |
| 6086017739 | Growth of bureaucracy | Federal has not really grown State and local have grown | 25 |