AP Government: The Federal Bureaucracy Flashcards
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| 9518093272 | Bureaucracy | According to Max Weber, a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization and operates on the merit principle |  | 0 |
| 9518093273 | Patronage | A patronage job is one that is given for political reasons instead of on merit or competence alone. |  | 1 |
| 9518093274 | Pendleton Civil Service Act | Established in 1883 so that hiring and promoting would be based on merit, rather than patronage |  | 2 |
| 9518093275 | Civil Service | A system of hiring and promoting based on the merit principle and is designed to create a nonpartisan government service |  | 3 |
| 9518093276 | Merit Principle | An idea that hiring and promotion should be based on people with adequate skills and abilities |  | 4 |
| 9518093277 | Hatch Act | Prohibits government employees from active participation in partisan politics, 1939 |  | 5 |
| 9518093278 | The Office of Personnel Management | In charge of hiring most agencies of the federal government |  | 6 |
| 9518093279 | GS (General Schedule) Rating | a schedule for federal employees, ranging from GS1-GS1, where salaries are judged by skill and experience |  | 7 |
| 9518093280 | Senior Executive Service | Established by Civil Reform Act of 1978, an elite organization of 9,000 federal government managers who do not require senate confirmation |  | 8 |
| 9518093281 | Independent Regulatory Commission | Government agency responsible for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest |  | 9 |
| 9518093282 | Government Corporation | Provides a service that could be provided by the private sector and usually charges for its services |  | 10 |
| 9518093283 | Independent Executive Agency | The part of government that is not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory commissions, and government corporations |  | 11 |
| 9518093284 | Policy Implementation | The stage between forming the policy and experiencing the consequences of the policy by how it affects the people. |  | 12 |
| 9518093285 | Standard Operating Procedures | Used by bureaucrats to bring uniformity to complex organizations (uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable) |  | 13 |
| 9518093286 | Administrative Discretion | Authority of administrative actors to choose responses to a given problem (discretion is greatest when routines or SOPs do not fit a case) |  | 14 |
| 9518093287 | Street-level bureaucrats | Refers to the bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion |  | 15 |
| 9518093288 | Regulation | Use of government authority to control or change some practice in the private sector (regulation affects the daily lives of people and institutions) |  | 16 |
| 9518093289 | Deregulation | Lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules have been established and that bureaucracies have been created to administer |  | 17 |
| 9518093290 | Command-and-control Policy | Typical system of regulation where government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these commands are followed, and punishes offenders |  | 18 |
| 9518093291 | Incentive System | By Charles Schultz, a more effective and efficient policy than command-and-control, market like strategies are used to manage public policy |  | 19 |
| 9518093292 | Executive Orders | Regulation,s with the force of law, coming from the executive branch to control the bureaucracy |  | 20 |
| 9518093293 | Iron Triangles | A mutual dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees |  | 21 |