Chapter 12 The Bureaucracy

a form of government failure in which regulatory agencies become too sympathetic to interests or businesses they are supposed to regulate

• "police patrol" capture

• "fire alarm" regulator

• whistleblower

• regulatory capture

federal employees who report wrongdoing in federal agencies

• police patrol

• whistleblower

• fire alarm

• inspector general

independent audit organizations located in most federal agencies

• inspectors general

• attorney general

• brigadier general

• general assembly

the effort by Congress, through hearings, investigations, and other techniques, to exercise control over the activities of executive agencies

• impeachment

• oversight

• conference committee referral

• general inspection

regular or even preemptive congressional hearings on bureaucratic agency operations

• "fire alarm" oversight

• "police patrol" oversight

• oversight

• inspectors general

episodic, as needed congressional hearings on bureaucratic agency operations, usually prompted by media attention or advocacy group complaints

• oversight

• "police patrol" oversight

• "fire alarm" oversight

• congressional oversight

the agency in the Executive Office of the President with control over the federal budget and regulations

• Council of Economic Advisors

• General Services Administration

• Treasury Department

• Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

the process by which a formerly public service becomes a service provided by a private company but paid for by the government

• privatization

• privateer

• publication

• private property

the top, presidentially appointed management rank for career civil servants

• Executive Presidential Management

• Selective Service

• Senior Executive Service

• Security and Exchange Commissioner

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

• merit system

• political appointment

• political system

• merit menagerie