AP Government: Bureacracy Flashcards

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