Chapter 3

Question 1

What is Bureaucratic discretion?

Answer 1

is the ability of public employees to make decisions interpreting the law and administrative regulations

Question 2

What is an example of bureaucratic discretion?

Answer 2

police officers and judges making decisions

Question 3

What are expertise in public admin?

Answer 3

Either street level bureaucrats or agencies

Question 4

Example of expertise?

Answer 4

police officers and congress

Question 5

What are street level bureaucrats?

Answer 5

Those who are on the front lines making decisions that directly affect American lives

Question 6

What is popular sovereignty?

Answer 6

the people hold the ultimate power

Question 7

What does limited government mean?

Answer 7

the government does not have too much power. There are checks and balances to make sure one branch is not more powerful than another

Question 8

What does pluralism mean?

Answer 8

that no one group dominates another, and policy makers should engage with multiple stakeholders

Question 9

What role do interest groups have in public admin?

Answer 9

They can share their opinion and they lobby public administers that share the same beliefs.

Question 10

what are subsystem politics?

Answer 10

any political alliance uniting some members of an administrative agency, a legislative committee or subcommittee, and an interest group according to shared values and preferences in the same substantive area of policy making

Question 11

what does the iron triangle consist of?

Answer 11

1. congress
2. bureaucracy
   3.interest groups

Question 12

What is agency capture?

Answer 12

govt agencies established to regulate industries end up being influenced and controlled by the companies they were supposed to regulate

Question 13

What are issue networks?

Answer 13

Are more open and fluid groupings of individuals inside and outside gov’t
-lack permanence
-members don’t interact often