Bureaucracies as Implementers The job of bureaucracies is: to implement policy made by congress, president, and judicial pronouncements Manage the routines of government (like delivering mail, collecting taxes, training troops)

Implementation includes: Creation of a new agency or assignment of a new responsibility to an old agency Translation of policy goals into rules of operation and guidelines Coordinate resources and personnel to achieve the goals

Problems with Implementation Program Design Lack of Clarity Lack of Resources Administrative Routine Administrators’ Dispositions Fragmentation Read the section in the text. Overview of the problem How does it impact implementation? Interesting/specific examples?

Voting Rights Act of 1965 Implementation at its finest! Targeted states in the deep south that were not allowing African American voters to register and vote Justice Department given the task Dispatched registrars to southern states, some with US marshals Within 7 ½ months 300,000 new AA voters

Presidents try to control the bureaucracy: Appoint the right people to head the agency Issue orders Alter an agency’s budget Reorganize an agency

Congress tries to control the bureaucracy Influence the appointment of agency heads Alter an agency’s budget Hold hearings Rewrite the legislation or make it more detailed

Iron Triangles Pg 500 graphic Relationship between interest group who wants the policy, the congressional committee voting on the policy, and the bureaucratic agencies charged with carrying out the policy

LO 15.5 To Learning Objectives Figure 15.4 Iron Triangles: One Example Copyright © 2011 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Longman

Chapter Test Answer questions 1-10, identify the page number that the answer is found on