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Bureaucracies Explained and Iron
Triangles
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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Bureaucracies/bureaucrats spend about $3
trillion of American GDP Unelected policymakers
Due to how influential they are, Presidents attempt to control bureaucracies
Policy makers
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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?
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_____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
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_____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.
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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.