Chapter 15 Textbook Flashcards
What is aBureaucracy?
a hierarchical authority structure that uses task specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with impersonality
What is a Patronage?
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
What is a civil service?
What is amerit principle?
What is theHatch Act?
A federal law prohibiting government employees from active participation in partisan politics
What is the Office of Personnel Management?
The office in charge of hiring for most agencies of the federal government, using elaborate rules in the process
What is the General Schedule Rating?
What is a Senior Executive Service?
What is an independent regulatory agency?
What is a government corporation?
What is an independent executive agency?
The government not accounted for by cabinet departments, independent regulatory agencies, and government corporations
What is policy implementation?
What are standard operating procedures?
What is administrative discretion?
What are street-level bureaucrats?
What is Regulation?
What is Deregulation?
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
What is a common-and-control policy?
What is an incentive system?
What are executive orders?
What are iron triangles?
