The Executive Bureaucracy

Question 1

What is the function of the executive branch?

Answer 1

-Execute laws passed by Congress

Question 2

What is a Bureaucracy?

Answer 2

• A hierarchal arranged organization that carries tasks in an compartmentalized fashion.
• Carry out laws under the President

Question 3

How does Bureaucracy effect all citizen daily lives?

Answer 3

-Departments:
–>Mail services
–> Military (department of defense)
–> Homeland Security
–> FDA
are some organization that influence our daily lives

Question 4

Why has Bureaucracy grown to be the size it is today?

Answer 4

-As society grew, new tasked emerged that required federal government to expand bureaucracy

Question 5

What are the Era in which caused Bureaucracy to expand?

Answer 5

• Progressive Era (1900-1920)
• New Deal Era ( 1932-1945)
• Great Society Era (1964-1980)

Question 6

What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Progressive Era?

Answer 6

• Government first began experience situations never encountered before
• Urbanization, with the influx of people to the city caused condition to arise for government to create bureaucracies.
• ex) Child Labor Laws
• ex) WW 1 expanded department of Defense

Question 7

What is the New Deal Era?

Answer 7

• FDR proposed plan to eliminate the Great Depression

Question 8

What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the New Deal Era?

Answer 8

• Expansion of Bureaucracy was needed to fill in the tasks of the New Deal
• ex) Agriculture administration
• ex) Social Welfare programs

Question 9

What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Great Society Era?

Answer 9

• ex) Creation of New Environmental protection

- ex) Increased Civil Rights call for Justice Department

Question 10

What is the Great Society Era?

Answer 10

-social reforms of poverty and racial injustice