Chap.7

Question 1

Bureaucrat

Answer 1

Employed and works professionally for the government

Question 2

Political patronage

Answer 2

Filling the bureaucracy with supporters as reward, discarding the use of the merit system

Question 3

Pendleton Act

Answer 3

An act made by Congress that made the U.S Civil Service Commission that controls hiring, promotion, and tenure

Question 4

Federal Civil Service

Answer 4

The bureaucracy except the armed forces which all merit-based

Question 5

Merit system

Answer 5

Hiring system which is used as testing competitively for certain qualifications

Question 6

Iron triangle

Answer 6

Permanent coordinated system that has internet groups, the bureaucracy, and Congress which all work to achieve policy goals

Question 7

Issue network

Answer 7

More updated version of the iron triangle that is temporary only for the use of problems arising, in which interest groups, policy advocates, and policymakers influence the law

Question 8

Implementation

Answer 8

Putting laws Congress passed into action, done by the bureaucracy

Question 9

Bureaucratic discretion

Answer 9

Bureaucrats given the choice to decide how the law meant by Congress and how it should be implemented

Question 10

Regulation

Answer 10

The federal bureaucracy making a set of rules for a law

Question 11

Bureaucratic adjudication

Answer 11

The federal bureaucracy acts like a court to settle disputes between parties over implementation