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.
independent regulatory commission
agencies are federal agencies created by an act of Congress that are independent of the executive departments.
S: Independent regulatory commission agencies are meant to impose and enforce regulations free of political influence.
interagency councils
working groups created to facilitate coordination of policy making and implementation across a host of governmental agencies.
S: There is an interagency council on homelessness.
iron triangles
the “iron triangle” comprises the policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy, and interest groups.
S: It is described in 1981 by Gordon Adams.
issue networks
issue networks are an alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a common cause or agenda in a way that influences government policy.
S: Issue networks can be either domestic or international in scope depending on their collective goal.
Max Weber
German sociologist and pioneer of the analytic method in sociology (1864-1920).
S: Max Weber was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist.
merit system
the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections.
S:It is the opposite of the spoils system.
patronage
the power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.
S: How are patronage’s effective?
pendelton act
a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.
S:
policy coordinating committees (PCCs)
Subcabinet-level committees created to facilitate interactions between agencies and departments to handle complex policy problems.
S:
Regulations
rules made by a government or other authority in order to control the way something is done or the way people behave.
S: The European Union has proposed new regulations to control the hours worked by its employees.
rule making
In administrative law, rule-making is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations.
S: Agencies create more detailed regulations through rule-making.
sixteenth amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
S: 16th amendment was passed by Congress in 1909.
spoils system
Is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government civil service jobs to its supporters, friends, and relatives as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party.
S: Spoils system contrasts the merit system.
world war 1
a war between the allies -Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Romania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro and the Central Powers -Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918.
S: World war 1 was a destructive war the U.S. got involved in.
world war 2
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.
S: World war 2 was started by Hitler and the Nazis trying to overcome the world.
