Ch.15 The Federal Bureaucracy

Question 1

Civil service

Answer 1

System of hiring/ promoting based on merit principle to create nonpartisan government

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

A hierarchical authority structure with task specialization, merit principle, and nonpartisan impersonality

Question 3

Administrative discretion

Answer 3

Authority of administrative actors to select among various responses to a given problem. Discretion is greatest when standard operating procedures don’t fit a problem

Question 4

Command - and - control policy

Answer 4

Typical system of Regulation where government tells businesses how to reach certain goals checks that commands are followed and punishes offenders

Question 5

Deregulation

Answer 5

Lifting of government restrictions on business industry and professional activities

Question 6

Executive orders

Answer 6

Regulations originating with executive branch. Orders are used by presidents to control bureaucracy

Question 7

Governmental corporations

Answer 7

Provide a service that could also be delivered by private business example US Postal Service

Question 8

GS (general service) rating

Answer 8

A schedule for federal employees ranging from gs-1 GS 18 by which salaries can be keyed to rating and experience

Question 9

Hatch Act

Answer 9

Prohibits government employees from participating in partisan politics while on duty

Question 10

Incentive system

Answer 10

Alternative to command and control with market like strategy does rewards used to manage public policy

Question 11

Independent executive agency

Answer 11

The government not accounted for by Cabinet departments Independent Regulatory Agencies and government corporations its initiators are typically appointed by the president and serve president pleasure NASA is an example

Question 12

Iron triangles

Answer 12

A mutually dependent relationship between bureaucratic agencies, interest groups and congressional committees or subcommittees. Iron triangles Dominique some areas of domestic policy making

Question 13

Merit principle

Answer 13

An idea that hiring should be based on entrance to provide a Administration by people with talent and skill

Question 14

Office of personnel management OMP

Answer 14

The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process

Question 15

Patronage

Answer 15

System in which jobs and promotions awarded for political reason not Merit or competence like a promotion or contract or job that’s giving for a political reason

Question 16

Pendleton Civil Service Act

Answer 16

Passed in 1883 an act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on Merit rather than patronage

Question 17

Policy implementation

Answer 17

State policy making between the establishment of policy and consequences of policy. Involves translating goals of a policy into an operating program

Question 18

Regulation

Answer 18

Use of government authority to control and change some practice in the private sector

Question 19

Senior executive service SES

Answer 19

And then light Cadre of about 9000 federal government managers, established by the civil service reform Act of 1978, who are mostly crew officials but include some political appointees who do not require Senate information

Question 20

Standard operating procedures

Answer 20

They’re known as Sops these procedures are used by werecats to bring before me to complex organizations. Uniformity improves fairness and makes personnel interchangeable

Question 21

Street-level bureaucrats

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A phrase coined by Michael lipsky, referring to those Bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion