BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC POLICY

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BUREAUCRACY AND PUBLIC POLICY

• What is bureaucracy?
• job specialization
• hierarchy
• systems of rules
• impersonality
• 2. Strengths and Weaknesses
• 3. Structure of the National Government
  Bureaucracy
• Cabinet Departments
• Other agencies
• Independent Executive Agencies
• Independent Regulatory Commission
• Government Corporations

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• 4. A Partial List of Functions
• Regulatory
• Clientele, or Constituency Service
• Public Corporations
• Housekeeping
• 5. Emergence of Modern Bureaucracy
• 6. Politics vs. Administration?
• 7. Interactions produce public policy
• 8. Subgovernments and iron triangles, redux