chapter 13

nov.24.2008
Chapter 13
Bureaucracies are a large complex organizing in which employs have a specific job responsibilities
a. government bureaucracies consists of the departments thier in
b. employees of these units are know as bureaucrats
c. manner in which a bureaucracy therefor centers around finding solutions to the many different kinds of departments.
In recent years witnesses have a movement towards reducing the size of the bureaucracy
A difficult to do b/c different segments of the population work hard to protect the programs that serve them
B recent years national government seems to have reduced the number of bureaucrats employs with our reducing government programs this has been accomplishment by contracting these factions out to private employers who then pay their employees to do the same job.
C efforts at budget cutting reflect the tension
Bureaus and Bureaucrats
15 executive department largest unit of the executive branch
-A presidents policy goals often have conflict w/ the institutional goal of an individual cabinet level agency
-Cabinet members often do not have a dominate influence on precedential decision making
-Regulatory are not a part of the cabinet. The regulatory agencies are governed by small commission 5 to 10 members appointed by the president and confirmed by the senit and can not be removed by president.
-government corporation perform services that theoretically could be handled by the private sectors.
-independent executive agencies resemble cabinet department but are smaller and complex
most bureaueate that work for the federal governement.