1. Words You
Should Know
Bureaucratic
Stuff
The
Bureaucracy
Now
and
Then
Hangin’
With the
Cabinet
Leftovers
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2. Veterans Affairs, Defense,
The Departments of
Veterans Affairs, Defense,
and Education are all
this level

3. Cabinet

4. Type of system used when bureaucrats are appointed
based on patronage

5. Spoils
System

6. Procedures and paperwork
you go through to get
the bureaucracy to
work for you

7. Red
Tape

8. Act that was created so
bureaucrats who tell
the truth about the
government cannot
get fired for telling
the truth

9. Whistleblower
Protection
Act

10. When an executive branch decision lies before Congress
for about 60 days
prior to going into effect

11. Legislative
Veto

12. A large, complex
organization of
appointed officials

13. Bureaucracy

14. The Weberian Model of
bureaucracy in which a
clear hierarchy is
visible and rules are
stablished is known as
this model

15. Classic
Model

16. This happens when
the DoD and DHS
do the same things

17. Duplication

18. that work against each other
When the CIA and the
FBI have programs
that work against each other

19. Conflict

20. The tendency of an agency
to grow regardless of
the cost or benefits to
its programs

21. Imperialism

22. Cabinet-level agencies
are responsible to him

23. The
President

24. The only way agencies can the funds are authorized
spend any money is if
the funds are authorized
by this group

25. Congress

26. Similar to imperialism, this model of bureaucracy
involves the agency “selling
its product” to expand their
staff and budget

27. Acquisitive
Model

28. Bureaucrats may sometimes presidential initiatives
successfully resist
presidential initiatives
because they cannot be
removed for office for
this reason alone

29. Political Reasons/
Their personal
beliefs

30. The biggest (or most
important) way that
Congress oversees the
bureaucracy

31. Money
(Power of the
Purse)

32. One of the largest gov't
employers today, it was
the largest executive
branch office of
the 19th Century.

33. The
Post
Office

34. gives the Civil Service Test
Reform Act (1978) created
this group which now
gives the Civil Service Test

35. Office of
Personnel
Management
(OPM)

36. The Cabinet started when
this department was
created to assist
George Washington

37. State
Department

38. Today's bureaucracy is
largely a result of
these two events

39. New Deal
and
World War II

40. The official act that created
the system of merit-
based appointments

41. Pendleton
Act

42. The leader of
the Department of
Justice

43. Attorney General
(Jeff Sessions)

44. this Cabinet department
The IRS answers to
this Cabinet department

45. Department
of the
Treasury

46. This Cabinet department issues like minimum wage
deals with workers
issues like minimum wage

47. Department of
Labor

48. the Cabinet departments
The smallest of all
the Cabinet departments

49. Department of
Education

50. This Cabinet department
oversees the
National Park Service

51. Department
of the
Interior

52. This Cabinet Secretary presidential succession
is 4th in the line of
presidential succession

53. Secretary of State
(Rex Tillerson)

54. Briefly explain why
it's so hard to fire
a bureaucrat

55. Long process;
lots of red tape

56. This agency played a
major role in getting
acts like the Clean Air
Act passed

57. Environmental
Protection
Agency

58. Agency that deals with
U.S. monteary policy in
part by controlling
interest rates

59. Federal Reserve
Board
(The Fed/FRB)

60. This is what usually
happens to an issue
network after its goal
has been achieved

61. It
dissolves

62. Double
Jeopardy!!

63. Words You
Should Know
Bureaucratic
Stuff
The
Bureaucracy
Now
and
Then
Hangin’
With the
Cabinet
Leftovers
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64. most bureaucratic matters
Laws that require
most bureaucratic matters
to be made public

65. Sunshine
Laws

66. Laws that expire
unless Congress votes
to extend them

67. Sunset
Laws

68. A bureaucrat who
informs the public
about waste in
the government

69. Whistle
Blower

70. Agencies such as the Fed and the SEC who have more
independence and are
responsible for protecting
the public interest

71. Independent
Regulatory
Agency

72. CIA, that is directly responsible to the president, but is not a
An agency, such as the
CIA, that is directly responsible
to the president, but is not a
Cabinet department

73. Independent
Executive
Agency

74. The relationship between an agency, a congressional
committee, and an interest group

75. Iron
Triangle

76. When an agency
becomes part of
the industry it’s
supposed to regulate

77. Capture

78. An organization made up of agency members, the media,
think tanks, and others
in the government who
help an agency deal with
pressure from interest groups

79. Issue
Network

80. choose the course of action taken because there's no
When a bureaucrat can
choose the course of action
taken because there's no
pre-existing law, he's
using this type of authority

81. Discretionary
Authority

82. AMTRAK and the
USPS are examples
of this part of the
bureaucracy

83. Government
Corporations

84. $91 on screws that cost 3 cents
This happens when
the government spends
$91 on screws that cost 3 cents
at Home Depot

85. Waste

86. Most bureaucrats
today work at this
level of gov’t

87. Local
Government

88. Even if we reduce waste in the government, we will most likely have
an increase in this pathology

89. Red
Tape

90. Besides size, give the main reason why our bureaucracy
is so complex

91. bureaucratic managers
Division of authority
among the
bureaucratic managers

92. Where are bureaucratic
rules & policies
published?

93. Federal
Register

94. Many bureaucrats are
removable from office
only by him

95. The
President

96. Why many people didn't
like the bureaucracy
when it first started

97. (Officials weren't qualified
Spoils System
(Officials weren't qualified
for the jobs they had)

98. Secret Service was originally part of this department
Though they now answer
to the DHS,
Secret Service was originally
part of this department

99. Department
of the
Treasury

100. oversees the bureaucracy
Give 2 ways Congress
oversees the bureaucracy

101. Answers vary but include: - Money/appropriations - Investigations
- Creation/Destroy agencies
- Senatorial Courtesy

102. corporations take over
Reforming the
bureaucracy by having
corporations take over
services such as jails
and hospitals

103. Privatization

104. This Cabinet department has been most instrumental
in the debate over
healthcare reform

105. Health and
Human Services
(HHS)

106. The Cabinet department that
deals with issues
concerning farmers

107. Department of
Agriculture

108. This Cabinet department handles nuclear materials

109. Department of
Energy

110. controls this group; but
During war the DoD
controls this group; but
during peacetime DHS
oversees it

111. Coast
Guard

112. Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac answer
to this department

113. Housing and
Urban Development
(HUD)

114. the idea that the Senate presidential appointments
The legal name given to
the idea that the Senate
has to confirm
presidential appointments

115. Senatorial
Courtesy

116. What the Constitution
says about the
bureaucracy

117. Nothing

118. Legislation that creates of policies they can create
a new agency and says
exactly what types
of policies they can create

119. Enabling
Legislation

120. The Office of Special
Counsel was created by
this Act

121. Whistleblower
Protection
Act

122. discretionary authority
This occurs when
bureaucrats use
discretionary authority
to rule , angering many
citizens

123. Arbitrary
Rule

124. in those “Crash Course”
Final
Jeopardy
What’s the guy’s name
in those “Crash Course”
videos we watched for
this unit?

125. Craig