AP Gov ch.8 Mariana Sanchez-Monke Flashcards
Administrative Adjudication
A bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties like a court
The purpose is to perfect Chinese administrative adjudication institution of environmental dispute.
Administrative discretion
Bureaucracies can choose best way to implement congressional intentions
The latitude for administrative discretion in individual cases surely encouraged rather than checked official corruption.
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 (the most prestigious. The diplomats), Defense: biggest, HHS, Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, Attorney General.
merit system
Federal civil service jobs are classified into levels; appointments are made based on performance
The early introduction of merit systems deprived them of patronage, and nominations for public office were outside their control.
department of home security
Secures Cyberspace
For Washington’s Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), shamed by a slow and inadequate response to Katrina in 2005, Irene presents a special test.
pendleton act
Created the Civil Service Commission to administer a partial merit system; cannot force appointees to support political party
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act established a similar system in the United States.
federal register
Created the federal register - a government publication describing bureaucratic actions and detailing regulations proposed by agencies.
It’s true that when governments deregulate, they must announce those changes in the Federal Register, too, and so some of the pages represent genuine deregulation.
G.I (Government issue) Bill
Created for returning WWII veterans, the G.I. Bill was created in 1944 and provided a range of benefits, including education, training, loans, unemployment compensation, and job counseling, for American soldiers.
He is also a veteran who went to college on the G.I. Bill – one of government’s great escalators into the middle class.
government corporation
A government organization that, like business corporations, provides a service that could be provided by the private sector and typically charges for its services. (U.S. Postal Service)
Misleading and using a quasi-government corporation, Hunter collects the cash for ViroSat.
great depression
the longest and deepest setback the American economy has ever experienced . It began with the stock market crash on October 24, 1929, and did not end until the start of World War II
America went off the gold standard after the Great Depression.
great society
President Lyndon Johnson’s broad array of programs designed to redress political, social, and economic inequality
Civil rights, equal opportunity and Great Society legislation in the 1960s also vested more power in the federal government.
hatch act
Limited Campaign contributions to party; made it illegal for federal contractors to donate.
The Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal employees during work hours using government facilities.
implementation
The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
Implementation of the restrictions has been held up pending court action
independent executive agencies
A government entity that is independent of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
independent regulatory commission
a government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independence is protected by congress
An Independent Regulatory Commission upheld the appeal and the red card was rescinded.
interagency councils
working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy making and implementation across a host of governmental agencies
iron triangles
A close relationship between an agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group
Now this iron triangle is coming under fire from a number of directions
issue networks
Relationships among interest groups, congressional committees and subcommittees, and the government agencies that share a common policy concern.
Issue networks can be either domestic or international in scope depending on their collective goal.
policy coordinating committees
Subcabinet-level committees created to facilitate interactions between agencies and departments to handle complex policy problems
regulations
Rules concerning the operation of all government programs that have the force of law
The stricter federal regulations would require businesses to double the reduction.
rule making
Quasi-legislative process resulting in regulations that have the characteristics of a legislative act
The EPA responded with a notice of petition for rulemaking.
ww1
a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
After World War 1 motor lorries took away a great deal of the short distance carrying from the narrow canals.
ww2
A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States
The German military in World War 2 achieved most of its great victories with the Blitzkrieg tactic.
federal bureaucracy
Federal agencies and institutions that implement and administer federal laws and programs
The case dragged through the federal bureaucracy for seven years, before she finally gave up her citizenship voluntarily in 1971
max weber
German sociologist that regarded the development of rational social orders as humanity’s greatest achievement. Saw bureaucratization (the process whereby labor is divided into an organized community and individuals acquire a sense of personal identity by finding roles for themselves in large systems) as the driving force in modern society.
This emphasis passed into the work of Max Weber and thus into one tendency in modern sociology.
patronage
the support given by a patron.
Without the patronage of several large firms, the festival could not take place
spoil system
the spoils system was a method of appointing officials to the government of the United States of America based on political connections rather than on impersonal measures of merit.
sixteenth amendment
allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. It was passed by Congress in 1909 in response to the 1895 Supreme Court case of Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co.
civil service system
those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. the body of persons employed in these branches.
Her progression through the grades of the civil service had been rapid.
