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the complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles of organization that is employed by all large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnel (page 553)

• merit system

• independent agency

• government corporation

• bureaucracy

the efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic rules and actions (page 553)

• implementation

• department

• revenue agency

• regulatory agency

a product of civil service reform, in which appointees to positions in public bureaucracies must objectively be deemed qualified for those positions (page 556)

• fiscal policy

• merit system

• federal reserve system

• privatization

the largest subunit of the executive branch; the secretaries of the 15 departments form the Cabinet (page 559)

• government corporation

• department

• oversight

• privatization

the agency that is not part of a Cabinet department (page 560)

• department

• regulatory agency

• revenue agency

• independent agency

the government agency that performs a market-oriented public service and raises revenues to fund its activities (page 561)

• regulatory agency

• revenue agency

• government corporation

• independent agency

department, bureau, or independent agency whose primary mission is to impose limits, restrictions, or other obligations on the conduct of individuals or companies in the private sector (page 563)

• regulatory agency

• independent agency

• revenue agency

• fiscal policy

the government's use of taxing, monetary, and spending powers to manipulate the economy (page 571)

• fiscal policy

• oversight

• devolution

• gold diggers

a system of 12 Federal Reserve banks that facilitates exchanges of cash, checks, and credit; regulates member banks, and uses monetary policies to fight inflation and deflation (page 571)

• oversight

• federal reserve system

• "fire alarm" oversight

• merit system

an agency responsible for collecting taxes. Examples include the Internal Revenue Service for income taxes; the U.S. Customs Service for tariffs and other taxes on imported goods; and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives for collection of taxes on the sale of those particular products (page 572)

• government corporation

• independent agency

• revenue agency

• implementation