Bureaucracy

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Bureaucracy
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Five Function of Bureaucrats

• Implement the law
• Provide expertise
• Provide research and information to the President
  and other executive officials
• Provide research and information to Congress
• Quasi-judicial powers and responsibilities

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Weberian Model of Bureaucracy

• Bureaucracies as rational, hierarchical
  organizations in which power flows from the top
  downward
• Decisions are based on logical reasoning and data
  analysis.
• Division of labor
• Chain of command
• Formal rules
• Apolitical (neutral decision making)
• Advancement based upon merit
• Bureaucrats are salaried by superior institutions

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Views of Bureaucracy

• Acquisitive
• Monopolisitic
• Bureaucratic Politics (G. Allison)

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Decision Making
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Types of bureaucratic structures

• Cabinet departments
• Independent executive agencies
• Independent regulatory agencies
• Government corporations

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US Govt Org Chart
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Employees

• Political appointees
• Civil service
• Elites
• Patronage
• Merit System

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Legislation

• Enabling
• Sunshine
• Sunset

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Constraints on bureaucracy

• Congress
• President
• Judiciary