Chapter 15- Bureaucracy

Question 1

Agency point of view

Answer 1

Stresses protection of the agency’s budget, powers, staff, and routines, often at the expense of what elected officials may want.

Question 2

Modern administrative state

Answer 2

Consists of vast, interconnecting webs of complicated administrative systems, regulatory procedures and nameless bureaucrats

Question 3

Bureaucracy

Answer 3

Means government by agency. The term is commonly employed to describe the collection of agencies a government creates to impose regulations, implement policies, and administer programs.

Question 4

Political appointees

Answer 4

Hold the highest executive positions, and come and go with changing presidential administrations

Question 5

Career civil servants

Answer 5

Occupy the middle management, professional, technical, and clerical positions- obtain their jobs on the basis of merit and are protected from being fired for political reasons

Question 6

Enabling legislation

Answer 6

Legislation which creates agencies. Often vague

Question 7

Independent agencies

Answer 7

Part of the federal bureaucracy. Not major executive departments

Question 8

Legislative veto

Answer 8

A device whereby congress, one chamber of congress, or even one congressional committee can veto agency decisions that are based on delegated authority

Question 9

Meritocracy

Answer 9

A system in which officials are recruited, selected, and retained on the basis of demonstrable merit.

Question 10

Sunshine laws

Answer 10

Laws which make an effort to open up the bureaucracy and “let the sun shine in”

Question 11

Whistle blowers

Answer 11

People who warn authorities and the press when their agency is acting out of line