Bureaucracy Part Two

Question 1

Which agencies have more traditional views

Answer 1

Additional agencies such as department of agriculture commerce and the treasury

Question 2

What is the whistleblower protection act

Answer 2

The law, created the office of special counsel, charged with investigating complaints from bureaucrats that they were punished after reporting the Congress about waist, fraud, or abuse and the agencies

Question 3

What is culture of the agencies

Answer 3

The informal understandings among fellow employees as to how they are supposed to act

Question 4

The jobs that are career enhancing our part of the

Answer 4

Culture

Question 5

The job that are not career enhancing

Answer 5

Are part of the NCE

Question 6

Administrative procedure act

Answer 6

Before adopting a new rule or policy and agency must give notice solicit comments and often hold hearings

Question 7

Freedom of information act

Answer 7

Citizens have the right to inspect all government records except those containing military intelligence or trade secrets or revealing private personal actions

Question 8

National environmental policy act

Answer 8

Before undertaking any major action affecting the environment and agency must issue and environmental impact statement

Question 9

Privacy act

Answer 9

Government files about individuals such as Social Security and tax records must be kept confidential

Question 10

Open meeting law

Answer 10

Every part of every agency meeting must be open to the public unless certain matters for example military or trade secrets are being discussed

Question 11

What are the consequences of governmental restraints

Answer 11

The government will often act slowly the government will sometimes act in consistently
It will be easier to block action than to take action
Lower ranking employees will be reluctant to make decisions on their own
Citizens will complain of red tape

Question 12

Is the iron triangle

Answer 12

A close relationship between agency a congressional committee and an interest group

Question 13

What is client politics

Answer 13

Iron triangles that allow each form to get something out of it

Question 14

What is an issue network

Answer 14

These issues networks consist of people in Washington-based interest groups were congressional staff and universities and think tanks and in the mass media who regularly debate government policies on a certain subject

Question 15

What is authorization legalization

Answer 15

Originates in a legislative committee such as agriculture education in labor or public works and states the maximum amount of money that an agency may spend on the given program

Question 16

What is an appropriate shin

Answer 16

Money formally set aside for specific use which may be in Austin is for less than the amount authorized

Question 17

What are trust funds

Answer 17

They operate outside the regular government budget and the Appropriations Committee’s have no control over these expenditures they are automatic

Question 18

What is committee clearance

Answer 18

Congressional committees may obtain the right to pass on certain agency decisions

Question 19

I legislative veto

Answer 19

And requirement that an executive decision must live before Congress for a specified period before it takes effect

Question 20

What are the five problems with bureaucracies

Answer 20

Red tape conflict duplication imperialism and waste

Question 21

What is red tape

Answer 21

Refers to the complex rules and procedures that must be followed to get something done

Question 22

Is conflict

Answer 22

It exists because some agencies seem to be working at cross purposes with other agencies

Question 23

What is duplication

Answer 23

Occurs when two government agencies seem to be doing the same thing

Question 24

What is imperialism

Answer 24

First of the tendency of the agencies to grow without regard to the benefits that their programs conference or the cost that they entail.

Question 25

What is waste

Answer 25

Means spending more than is necessary to buy some product or service

Question 26

Which type of industries are more liberal

Answer 26

Activist agencies such as Federal Trade Commission and Environmental Protection Agency’s

Question 27

Loosely structured rolls are greatly affected bye

Answer 27

Personal attitudes

Question 28

What are the advantages of a strong culture

Answer 28

It motivates employees to work hard in order to win the respect of their coworkers as well as the approval of their bosses

Question 29

What are the disadvantages of a strong culture

Answer 29

It makes it hard for an agency to change, FBI agents for many years resisted getting involved in civil rights or organized crime cases and diplomats in the state department didn’t pay much attention to embassy security. These important jobs were not a career enhancing part of the culture

Question 30

What are three ways in which the Appropriations Committee’s have lost some of the great power over government agencies

Answer 30

Trust funds,
Congress has changed the authorization of many programs from permanent or multiyear to annual authorizations and this limits the ability of Appropriations Committee’s to determine the spending limit each year
Third the existence of huge fuss budget deficits take up congresses time as they’re trying to keep overall spending down and therefore the budget resolution passed by Congress mandated cuts in several programs before the Appropriations Committee’s had even completed their work

Question 31

What was the Chad a case

Answer 31

The court held that the Constitution clearly requires an article one that every order resolution or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary shall be represented to the president of United States who must either approve it or return it with his veto attached. In short, congress cannot take any action that has the force of law unless the president concurs in that action

Question 32

What was the rehabilitation act

Answer 32

It was past with the provision bearing the discrimination against people with disabilities in any program receiving federal aid