Federal bureaucracy chap. 14

Question 1

Americans dislike bureaucrats

Answer 1

Just the group, they love individual because they get treatment from them.

Question 2

Bureaucracies are growing bigger each year.

Answer 2

Employee has been expanding, state and local 20 million.

Federal: 2.7 million

Question 3

Most bureaucrats work in D.C

Answer 3

More than 43,000 federal civilian.

Question 4

ineffective, inefficient, and always mired in red tape:Bureaucracies

Answer 4

Way of organizing people to perform work. When they work well no one gives them much credit.

Question 5

Civil servant

Answer 5

More broadly representative than legislator and others.

patronage: a hiring And promotion system based on political factors.

Question 6

Pendleton and hatch act

Answer 6

Some sort of civil service system(work), employees with sensitive position.

Question 7

Political appointees

Answer 7

500 top policymaking posts.
2,500 lesser position.
Ambassadorships go to contributors.
Demographic balance.

Question 8

Transient employee

Answer 8

Last less than two years.
Take one for the team.
Dependent upon senior civil servents.

Question 9

Cabinet department

Answer 9

15 department is headed by a secretary. Undersecretaries, deputy, assistant,etc. Own budget, policy are, staff.

Question 10

Independent regulatory commission

Answer 10

Make and enforce rules.
FRB- charged with governing banks.
NLRB- regulate labor-managment.
FCC- charged w/ media.
FTC- advertising 
SEC- stock market.

Question 11

Part 2(irc)

Answer 11

Governed by 5-10 commissioner w/ fixed terms.

Somewhat insulated from politics, regulatory capture.

Question 12

Gov. Corporation

Answer 12

Charge consumers for these services.
TVA- new deal. U.S postal service - largest.
Amtrak- railroad passenger service.

Question 13

Independent executive agencies

Answer 13

45-50.
Administators appointed by president. GSA- handle building.
NSF- supporting research
NASA- American to the moon.

Question 14

Implementation?

Answer 14

Policies are not self-executing.
Implementation are critical-
- create new agency.
- transelate policy goals into rules and guidelines.

Question 15

Why best -laid plans

Answer 15

Program design- when ppl change/lose their jobs, but expect for them to pay more than the rate.

Question 16

Best- laid part two: lack of clarity and lack of resources

Answer 16

Education act 1972 & athletes.

Lack of funding(headstart), lack of personnel.

Question 17

Best-laid part 3: lack of authority & administrative

Answer 17

FDA- protecting the public, lack of food safety standards.

Follow standard operating procedure- everyday decision..

Question 18

Best-laid part 4: administrators disposition & fragmentation

Answer 18

Street-level bureaucrats- constant contact w/pubic.

basic welfare grants, allows agencies to work at cross-purposes.

Question 19

Voting rights act of 1965

Answer 19

Clear goals: register african american voters.

Achieve: protected by u.s marshals.

Question 20

Privatization

Answer 20

reinvent government, bureaucracies through market competition w/private contractors.

Question 21

Regulation in economy and in everyday life

Answer 21

Free enterprise is highly regulated. History: federal after 1887, enforcement varies, state and local, guidelines.

Question 22

Deregulation

Answer 22

Percieved problems w/ regulation:
- raising prices
- hurting americas competitive position abroad, failing to work well.
Hazards.

Question 23

President try to control the bureaucracy

Answer 23

appoint agency heads. Issue orders: executive orders carry force of law. Alter agency budgets. Reorganize agencies- is hard if the agency are large and strong.

Question 24

Congress tries to control bureaucracy

Answer 24

Paradoxical relationship: provide servoces to constituents and problem-solve.
Method: rewrite legislation, alter agencies budgets, hold oversight hearings.

Question 25

Iron triangles and issue networks

Answer 25

subgov. Have advantage for all sides.

Death triangle: nuclear iron.