executive branch - chapter 8

Question 1

bureaucracy

Answer 1

complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and organization that large-scale institutions use to coordinate the work of their personnel

Question 2

implementation

Answer 2

development of rule, regulations and bureaucratic procedures to translate laws into action

Question 3

rule making

Answer 3

administrative process that produces regulations by government agencies

Question 4

administrative adjudication

Answer 4

application of rules/precedents to specific cases to settle disputes with regulated parties

Question 5

clientele agency

Answer 5

department/bureau whose mission is to promote, serve or represent a particular interest

Question 6

regulatory agency

Answer 6

department, bureau, or independent agency whose mission is to make rules governing a particular type of activity- FDA

Question 7

administrative legislation

Answer 7

rules that have the force of law

Question 8

fiscal policy

Answer 8

regulation of economy through taxing and spending

Question 9

monetary policy

Answer 9

regulation of the economy through manipulation of the supply of money, price of money via inflation, availability of credit

Question 10

iron triangles

Answer 10

alliance between agency staff, congresspeople, and interest groups

Question 11

principal-agent relationship

Answer 11

relationship between someone with authority (principal) and someone with delegated power(agent)

Question 12

bureaucratic drift

Answer 12

bureaucracies implement laws that lean towards their preferences and not the intentions of elected officials

Question 13

coalition drift

Answer 13

enacted policy will change in the future because the composition of enacting coalition is temporary

Question 14

devolution

Answer 14

delegating a program/passing it down one level of government

Question 15

privatization

Answer 15

moving all/part of a program from private to public sector