1. The 4th Branch?
Federal Bureaucracy

2. Bureaucracy Bureau- Office or Desks Cracy- Rule or Form of Rule
Literally means rule from Desks
We have a lot of desks in our country
3 million civilian and 2 million military

3. What the Bureaucracy Does
The primary task of the Bureaucracy is….
Implementation
The efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic routines

4. Implementation ****Congress*****
Very easy process when the bosses are particular in making the laws
****Congress*****
However, when they are not specific, it requires the B-Crats to interpret and then implement
What happens when B-Crats must interpret and then implement?
LAW MAKING

5. Law Making
In these situations, Congress delegates the appropriate agency a broad authority and then bureaucrats have to make actual laws through Rule Making and Administrative Adjudication

6. Administrative Adjudication
Applying Rules and Precedents to specific cases to settle disputes between regulated parties
Judicial Power
Consumer Product Safety Commission held hearings on safety of bleachers
Issued guidelines about Bleacher construction. Guidelines had the power of law

7. How you can become a B-Crat!!!
The Spoils system
“To the Victor Goes the Spoils”
Replacing all bureaucratic positions of an old party with the winning party
Overturned by Civil Service Act of 1883 (PENDELTON ACT)

8. Merit System- based on Civil Service act of 1883
Appointees to positions in public bureaucracies must objectively be deemed qualified for that position