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Title: The Simpsons Movie


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The Simpsons Movie
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Overview
  • Democracy
  • Executive Power
  • Governance
  • What is the role of government?
  • Is government necessary?
  • Is government competent?

3
Democracy
  • Democracy demos kratia rule by people

4
Executive Power
  • The President is Chief Executive, a role which
    nominally places him in charge of the federal
    bureaucracy

5
Cabinet Departments
  • Cabinet Departments
  • 15 Cabinet Departments
  • Agriculture Commerce Defense
  • Education Energy HHS
  • Homeland Sec HUD Interior
  • Justice Labor State
  • Transportation Treasury VA

6
Independent Executive Agencies
  • IEAs are agencies who report directly to the
    president but stand independent of the federal
    bureaucracy
  • e.g.,
  • CIA
  • EPA
  • NASA

EPA Director Lisa Jackson
7
Independent Regulatory Agency
  • Agency substantially independent of both the rest
    of the executive branch and Congress
  • Usually dedicated to regulating a narrow area of
    public policy
  • e.g., Fed FCC FTC NLRB, EEOC

8
Government Corporations
  • Government owned business designed as a
    for-profit enterprise
  • e.g., FDIC, TVA, USPS, AmTrak, PBS

9
Staffing
  • Spoils System
  • Job appointments given over to executive branch
  • Jobs awarded on the basis of political ties and
    fealty

10
Staffing
  • Merit System
  • 1883 Pendleton Act (Civil Service Reform Act)
  • Jobs awarded on basis of merit/qualifications
  • Created Civil Service Commission to administer
    personnel decisions (hire/pay)

11
Staffing
  • Civil Service Reform Act (1978)

Merit Systems Protection Board
Office of Personnel Mangement
12
Functions
  • Bureaucracies are in some ways a mini
    government unto unthemselves
  • administrative
  • implementation of legislative and executive
    policies
  • quasi legislative
  • proposed rules
  • quasi judicial
  • enforcement of rules

13
Functions
  • Bureaucrats can have important role in shaping
    public policy
  • they can support the president with information
  • they can shape presidential options with
    information provided
  • they can undermine the president with information
    and actions

14
Governance
  • Is Government necessary? Or a necessary evil?
  • Is government able to live up to its
    responsiblities?
  • Environmental Protection
  • National Security
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