Bureaucracy

Question 1

Iron Triangles

Answer 1

Alliances among bureaucrats, interest groups, and congressional subcommittee members and staff sometimes form to promote their common causes. Also known as sub governments.
* can be a barrier in a president trying to implement policy goals

Question 2

How do they get power?

Answer 2

By trying to obtain more money from Congress

Question 3

Independent Regulatory Agencies

Answer 3

Deal with regulating the economy; heads of these agencies cannot be fired by the president which insulates them in order for the to give the best decision and not just one that is political

• federal reserve
• securities and exchange commission

Question 4

Government Corporation

Answer 4

Post Office

Question 5

Bureaucrats…

Answer 5

1. Implement laws
2. Make and enforce their own rules
3. Settle disputes

• THEY ARE MADE UP OF EXPERTS

Question 6

Discretionary Authority

Answer 6

Agencies ability to make decisions, take action or not take action

Question 7

Merit System

Answer 7

Desire for the best government not the best of friends government

Question 8

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Answer 8

• passed in 1883 to prevent the constant reward to local party leaders
• established hiring employees based on merit not loyalty; this included written exams
• Civil Service Commission- oversee new merit process

Question 9

Chief Executive, Administrator, Bureaucrat …

Answer 9

These are the same thing

Question 10

Red Tape

Answer 10

-most common complaint about the government/ bureaucracy
- this is the vast amount of paperwork, procedures, tasks etc, that citizens must take to accomplish a mandated task
Ex: paperwork at DMV

Question 11

Bureaucratic Inertia

Answer 11

A concern for bureaucracies is accountability

- more red tape and slow process for completing a task

Question 12

Bureaucratic noncompliance

Answer 12

Tendency of an agency to resist changes/ orders from the president
Ex: NASA director not doing what the pres says

Question 13

Budget Reform and Impoundment Act

Answer 13

• Requires president to spend ALL appropriated funds
• president practice of refusing to spend money appropriated by Congress
• Congress passed the Budget Reform and Impoundment Act

Question 14

Legislative Veto

Answer 14

• established in the 1930s to control agencies

- Congressional resolution that nullifies an action taken by an executive agency