Bureaucracy Flashcards
Bureaucracy
-not required by constitution but implied
-13 cabinet departments
-independent regulatory agencies
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Secretary of State
Hilary Clinton
Secretary of defense
Leon E. Pannetta
Secretary of Treasury
Tim Guithner
Max weber’s definition of bureaucracy
- hierarchical system
- impersonal
- task specialization
- merit principle
Independent executive agencies
- office of management and budget
- counsel of economic advisors
- government accountability office
implementation
- creating/assigning an agency the policy
- translating policy to rules
- coordinating resources to achieve the goal
why implementation sometimes fails
- program design
- lack of clarity
- lack of resources
- fragmentation (too many agencies to a problem)
- administrator’s disposition
elements of regulation
- A grant of power and set of directions from Congress
- A set of rules and guidelines by the regulatory agency itself
- Some means of enforcing compliance with congressional goals and agency regulations
Deregulation problems
- raises problems
- hurts U.S. competition position abroad
- does not always work
how the president tries to control the bureaucracy
- Appoint the right people.
- Issue executive orders.
- Tinker with the agency’s budget.
- Reorganize an agency.
how Congress tries to control the bureaucracy
- Influence presidential appointments.
- Tinker with the agency’s budget.
- Hold hearings.
- Rewrite the legislation or make it more detailed.
Iron Triangle
A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees.
attorney general
eric holder
attorney general
eric holder
Iron Triangle
A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees or subcommittees.
how Congress tries to control the bureaucracy
- Influence presidential appointments.
- Tinker with the agency’s budget.
- Hold hearings.
- Rewrite the legislation or make it more detailed.
how the president tries to control the bureaucracy
- Appoint the right people.
- Issue executive orders.
- Tinker with the agency’s budget.
- Reorganize an agency.
elements of regulation
- A grant of power and set of directions from Congress
- A set of rules and guidelines by the regulatory agency itself
- Some means of enforcing compliance with congressional goals and agency regulations
why implementation sometimes fails
- program design
- lack of clarity
- lack of resources
- fragmentation (too many agencies to a problem)
- administrator’s disposition
regulation problems
- raises problems
- hurts U.S. competition position abroad
- does not always work
elements of regulation
- A grant of power and set of directions from Congress
- A set of rules and guidelines by the regulatory agency itself
- Some means of enforcing compliance with congressional goals and agency regulations
implementation
- creating/assigning an agency the policy
- translating policy to rules
- coordinating resources to achieve the goal
