1. Bureaucracy
A large organization that is structured hierarchically to carry out a specific function.

2. Questions on bureaucracy?
What are some government bureaucratic organizations?
What are our perspectives on bureaucratic organizations?
Why do we feel this way about bureaucracies?

3. Quote on Bureaucracy
“Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.”
Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian American Economist)
Do you agree with Schumpeter?

4. The Iron Triangle

5. Iron Triangle
Bureaucratic organizations relationship with the industries they regulate.
Work together. (Recruitment and advice)
Influence peddling.
Lobbyists.
Bureaucratic organizations relationship with Congressional committees.
Laws implemented after they are passed.
Industry representatives and Congressional Committees.
Influence laws that will get passed.

7. Types of Agencies Federal Executive Departments
Independent Regulatory Agencies
Cabinet members who meet with the President.
Some examples:
State Department
Treasury Department
Defense Department
Labor Department
Homeland Security
Some problems…
Examples include EPA, FAA, FCC, Federal Reserve System, FDA, NASA, and SEC.

8. Spoils system vs. Merit system
1828 Andrew Jackson
1883 Civil Service Reform Act (Pendleton Act)