Textbook: Chapter 8- Executive Bureaucracy Flashcards
Four types of operating parts of the Bureaucracy
Cabinet Departments
Independent Agencies
Government Corporations
Regulatory Commisions
Bureaucracy
The offices, tasks and organization employed in the most formal and sustained administration
Bureaucratic Heirarchy
Cabinet Secretary
Top Administrators
Undersecretaries
Specialized Bureaus
Other divisions, offices, and units
Clientele Agencies
Executive agencies and departments
Agencies for the maintenance of the Union
Perform essential operations
Securing revenue
Maintaining security
Keep the government going
Regulatory agencies
Guide individual conduct by providing disincentives that eliminate or restrict undesirable behaviors
Agencies of redistribution
Implement fiscal, monetary, and welfare policies
Before the fact control mechanisms
Appointment Process
Procedural Controls
After the fact control mechanisms
Incentives for success
Withholding incentives for nonperformance
Bureaucratic drift
Bureaucracy produces policy in a way other than originally intended
Fire alarm oversight
Citizens or interest groups bring complaints about bureaucratic behaviors
Police patrol oversight
Systematically monitoring
Termination
Elimination of government programs
Public may be attached to the services
Deregulation
Devolution
Downsizing of the government
Privatization
Moving a program from the public sector to the private sector
