Bureaucracy

Question 1

Bureaucrat

Answer 1

anyone working for the government that isn’t elected or a judge

Question 2

Rule-making

Answer 2

how laws passed will be implemented

Question 3

Cabinet Departments

Answer 3

departments within the executive branch that encompasses many agencies

Question 4

Independent Agency

Answer 4

an agency outside of the cabinet department

Question 5

Government Corporation

Answer 5

a federally owned corporation which generates revenue by providing a public service (ie: the US postal service)

Question 6

Bureaucratic drift

Answer 6

when gov. agencies stop executing policies consistent with the POTUS and instead do as they wish…bureaucracy moves policy

Question 7

Coalitional Drift

Answer 7

when the principal changes ideologies but agents stay the same

Question 8

Multiple Principals Problem

Answer 8

agencies are cross pressured by president and congress

Question 9

Agency Capture

Answer 9

process by which regulation is directed away from public interest and toward interests of regulated industry, often results in regulation that helps current businesses but hurts new ones. Follows interest groups

Question 10

Oversight

Answer 10

the monitoring of bureaucracies

Question 11

Fire Alarms

Answer 11

Congress waits until someone comes to them with a problem

Question 12

Police Patrol

Answer 12

actively looking for a problem

Question 13

Spoils System

Answer 13

Prez fills jobs after each election; gov jobs = patronage

Question 14

Pendleton Act of 1883

Answer 14

made it illegal to require people to pay dues to political parties

Question 15

Privatization

Answer 15

The contracting of private companies by the government to conduct work that was formerly done by government agencies.

Question 16

Outsourcing

Answer 16

gov pays many outside private groups to do its jobs

Question 17

Iron Triangle

Answer 17

Triangle between congressional committee, bureaucratic agent and interest group…ie: Congress, DOD,Lockhead Martin