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Chapter 15 Textbook Flashcards

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What is aBureaucracy?

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a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality

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What is a Patronage?

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What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?

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What is a civil service?

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What is amerit principle?

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What is theHatch Act?

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A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics

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What is the Office of Personnel Management?

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

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What is the General Schedule Rating?

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What is a Senior Executive Service?

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What is an independent regulatory agency?

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What is a government corporation?

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What is an independent executive agency?

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The government not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory agencies, and government corporations

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What is policy implementation?

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What are standard operating procedures?

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What is administrative discretion?

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What are street-level bureaucrats?

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What is Regulation?

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What is Deregulation?

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The lifting of restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities for which government rules had been established and that bureaucracies had been created to administer

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What is a common-and-control policy?

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What is an incentive system?

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What are executive orders?

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What are iron triangles?

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