ap gov chapter 14 vocab

Command & Control Policy

• legislative system where the government gives commands to business checks if their obedient and punishes those who don't obey

• giving free money to those who listen and giving no money to those who don't listen

• Better known as SOP's, these procedures for everyday decision making enable bureaucrats to bring efficiency and uniformity

• An alternative to command and control, with market like strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy

iron triangles

• The stage of policy making between the establishment of a policy and the consequences of the policy for the people affected. Implementation involves translating the goals and objectives of a policy into an operating, ongoing program

• Regulations originating with the executive branch. Executive orders are one method presidents can use to control the bureaucracy

• sub Government consists interest groups congressional committees and bureaucratic agencies working together. dominate some policy making.

• The government agencies are not accounted for by cabinet departments. Their administrations are appointed by the president and serve at the president’s pleasure. NASA is an example

policy implementation

• The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities

• when a policy is being edited with all the parties involved to make it possible/functional

• An alternative to command and control, with market like strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy

• A schedule for federal employees ranging from GS1 and GS 18, by whichcsalaries can be keyed to rating experience

bureaucracy

• Is a hiring and promotion system based on political factors rather than on merit or competenc

• The idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams and promotion ratings to produce administration by people with talent and skil

• Passed in 1883, an act that created a federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit rather than patronage

• a complex organization that has multi-layered system and process

deregulation

• Is a hiring and promotion system based on political factors rather than on merit or competence

• The Iron Triangle is a concept, not an institution. It is the idea that committees in the House and Senate, federal departments and agencies, and think tanks and interest groups all work together to develop and conserve their own power, and expand their political influence

• taking away regulations or policies set by the government giving more power to a bureaucracy

• The use of governmental authority to control or change some practise in the private sector

hatch act

• made in 1939 legislation that prevents bureaucrats / public servants from engaging in Party politics while on the job

• The use of governmental authority to control or change some practise in the private sector

• A phase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion.

• The government agencies are not accounted for by cabinet departments. Their administrations are appointed by the president and serve at the president’s pleasure. NASA is an example

merit principle

• The typical system of regulation whereby government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these command are followed and punishes offenders

• The lifting of government restrictions on business, industry, and professional activities

• ideas that employment should be based on tests and evaluations to be able to hire people with skills and abilities

• An elite cadre (group) of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system. 

pendleton civil service act

• A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives

• An elite cadre (group) of about 9,000 federal government managers at the top of the civil service system. 

• A schedule for federal employees ranging from GS1 and GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating experience.”

• passed in 1883 act that makes hiring and promotion based on Merit and not based on politics

street level bureaucrats ex: police officers

• Public Service workers who are more directly in contact with the public and can use discretion

• A government organization that like business corporations, provides a service that could be delivered by the private sector and typcially charges for its services. The US Postal Service is an exmaple.

• government

• A phase referring to those bureaucrats who are in constant contact with the public and have considerable administrative discretion.

administrative discrete

• allows agencies to use experiences and judgment when doing their job instead of sticking to the normal rules of procedures

• The government agencies are not accounted for by cabinet departments. Their administrations are appointed by the president and serve at the president’s pleasure. NASA is an example

• An alternative to command and control, with market like strategies such as rewards used to manage public policy.

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