chapter 8 Benny Martinez Flashcards
administrative adjudication
is the process by which an administrative agency issues an affirmative, negative, injunctive, or declaratory order. The formal proceedings before an administrative agency adopt the process of rule making or adjudication.
s-what does these administrative adjudication
administrative discretion
refers to the flexible exercising of judgment and decision making allowed to public administrators Regulatory agencies have the power to exercise this type of discretion in their day-to-day activities, and there have been cases where regulatory agencies have abused
s-Administrative discretion keeps everything a secret and does everything on the low
cabinet department
The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state
s- the cabinet department is led by the government
civil department
The United States Department of Justice Civil Division represents the United States, its departments and agencies, members of Congress, cabinet officers, and other federal employees
s-The civil department is the department civil division
Department of homeland security
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the U.S. federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries
s-The department of homeland security keeps us secure
federal bureaucracy
performs three primary tasks in government: implementation, administration, and regulation. When Congress passes a law, it sets down guidelines to carry out the new policies. Actually putting these policies into practice is known as implementation
s-The federal bureaucracy is implementing the practice
federal register
The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices. It is published daily, except on federal holidays
s- the federal register contains the secrets of the agencies
government issues bill
a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out. a piece of paper money worth a specified amount: a ten-dollar bill. Government . a form or draft of a proposed statute presented to a legislature, but not yet enacted or passed and made law
s-we have lots of government issues bills
government corporations
is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. … There is no standard definition of a government-owned corporation (GOC) or state-owned enterprise (SOE), although the two terms can be used interchangeably
s-we have a lot of government corporations
great depression
was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
s- with all these sentences im going to have a great depression
great society
a domestic program in the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson that instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs
s-The Great society was the administrations programs
hatch act
officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials, from engaging in some forms
s-The hatch act protects laws and presidents
implementation
the process of putting a decision or plan into effect; execution
s- We need to put implementation to the new laws
independent executive agencies
are agencies that exist outside the federal executive departments (those headed by a Cabinet secretary) and the Executive Office of the President. … These agency rules (or regulations), when in force, have the power of federal law
s- what are some independent executive agencies
independent regulatory commission
legislative act in order to set standards in a specific field of activity, or operations, in the private sector of the economy and to then enforce those standards. Regulatory agencies function outside executive supervision
s- The independent regulatory commission was certain specific fields