1. Federal Bureaucracy Chapter 15

2. The Bureaucrats Myths –Americans Dislike Bureaucracies –Bureaucracies are growing bigger each year Half false –Most Federal Bureaucrats work in Washington, DC. –Bureaucracies are ineffective, inefficient, and always mixed in read tape.

3. Who they are and How they got there. Civil service from Patronage to Protection. The other Route to Federal Jobs: Recruiting from the Plum Book. Key Terms: Bureaucracy Patronage Pendleton Civil Service Act Civil Service Merit Principal Hatch Act Officer personal Management General Schedule Rating Senior Executive Service (SES)

4. Pendleton Civil Service Act

5. How Bureaucracies are Organized The Cabinet Departments The Regulatory Agencies The Government Corporations Independent Executive Agencies. Key Terms: Independent regulatory agency. Government corporations. Independent executive agencies

6. Bureaucracies as Implementers Key Terms: What Implementation means. Why the best laid plans sometimes flunk the Implementation tests. Program design Lack of clarity Lack of resources Administrative routine Administrations’ disposition Fragmentation Key Terms: Policy implementation Standard operation procedures

7. Bureaucracies as Implementers Program Design Lack of Clarity Lack of Resources Lack of Authority Fragmentation

8. Bureaucracies as Regulators Regulation in the Economy and in Everyday Life. a full day of regulation Regulation: How it grew, How it works. Toward Deregulation. Key Terms: Regulation Command-and-control policy. Incentive system Deregulation

9. Understanding Bureaucracies. Bureaucracy and Democracy Presidents try to control Bureaucracy Congress tries to control Bureaucracy Iron Triangles and Issue Networks Key Terms: Executive orders Iron triangle

10. Iron Triangle

11. Bureaucracy and the Scope of Government. Federal Bureaucracy hasn’t grown over the past two generations. Government and Bureaucracy expected to deal with social and economic problems.

12. Vocabulary fad Bureaucracy Patronage Pendleton Civil Service Act Civil Service Merit Principal Health Act Officer personal Management General Schedule Rating Senior Executive Service (SES) Independent regulatory agency. Government corporations. Independent executive agencies Regulation Command-and-control policy. Incentive system Deregulation Executive orders Iron triangle

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