Post on 11-Jan-2016
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Bureaucracies Explained and Iron
Triangles
The use of gov’t authority to control the
private sector
Occurs everyday in your lives EPA: require pollution control FTC: unfair advertising claims
Regulated
Munn v. Illinois (1877): upheld Congress’s right
to regulate business. Issue: Can Congress regulate warehouse prices
of a Chicago warehouse Reasoning: Congress could regulate business
practices as they are a part of commerce
Why can they do this?
3 elements all regulations have
1) A grant of power/direction from Congress
2) A set of rules and guidelines for the agency itself
3) Some means of enforcing compliance with the regulation
What makes a regulation
Deregulation: lifting of government
restrictions. Why? (allegedly)
Raising prices: regulations make goods cost more
Hurting America’s competitive position: Other nations have fewer(less expensive)
regulations
Failure to work well: may be hard to enforce, or just too cumbersome.
Get out of here Regulation
Bureaucracies/bureaucrats spend about $3
trillion of American GDP Unelected policymakers
Due to how influential they are, Presidents attempt to control bureaucracies
Policy makers
1. Appoint the head of the agency to achieve
means 2. Issue orders
Executive Order: Presidential order that carries the weight of law.
3. Alter an agencies budget 4. Reorganize the bureau
How?
_____24.) ____ systems are designed to hire and
promote members of the bureaucracy on the basis of merit and to create a nonpartisan government service.
A.) Patronage B.) Civil service C.) Hatch D.) Civilian E.) Military
_____22.) The authority of administrative actors
to select among various responses to a given problem is
called
A.) policy implementation. B.) selective management. C.) the merit principle. D.) the definition of alternatives. E.) administrative discretion.
2.) In the first half of United States history,
bureaucracies tended to act in a client-oriented role. However, since the early 1900s, the bureaucracy has become more of a regulator.
a.) Identify TWO agencies that serve in a regulatory capacity and give an example of a regulation each has made.
b.) Describe ONE complaint made about the federal bureaucracy acting in the role of a regulator.