Brooke-Ch.8 Flashcards
administrative adjudication
a quasi-judicial process in which a bureaucratic agency settles disputes between two parties in a manner similar to the way courts resolve disputes.
S:Administrative adjudication is the application of rules and precedents to specific cases to settle disputes with regulated parties.
administrative discretion
in public administration, administrative discretion refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators.
S: Public administrators have flexible exercising of making decisions.
cabinet departments
15 total of various size, status, visibility, and function. They all advise the President, help execute/implement programs; have broad responsibility.
S: There are 15 cabinet departments.
civil service system
A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service.
S: Civil service system is a system of hiring in government.
department of homeland security
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.
S: Department of homeland security is a very important department.
federal bureaucracy
performs three primary tasks: implementation, administration, and regulation.
S: When Congress passes a law, federal bureaucracy sets down guidelines to carry out the new policies
federal register
a daily publication of the US federal government that issues proposed and final administrative regulations of federal agencies.
S:What is the purpose of federal register?
government corporations
A government agency that operates like a business corporation, created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program.
S: A government entity that is independent of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
G.I (Governmental Bill)
A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II.
S: Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.
Government corporations
A government corporation is a company that is owned by the government and operates with the same independence of a private business, except that the owner is the government.
S: A government entity that is independent of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Great Depression
Nine thousand banks failed during the months following the stock market crash of 1929.
S:the stock market crash was not the single cause of the Great Depression.
Great Society
a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs.
S: The main goal of the Great Society was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
Hatch Act
The purpose of the Act is to maintain a federal workforce that is free from partisan political influence or coercion. or undertake any partisan political activity.
S: The Hatch Act generally applies to employees working in the executive branch of the federal government.
Implementation
the process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution.
S: In other words implementation is the process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending.
independent executive agencies
agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President.
S: The executive president head the independent executive agencies.