Line Organizations and Managerial Presidents

1
Line Organizations and Managerial Presidents

• POTUS oversees the executive bureaucracy
  including
• 15 cabinet departments are line organizations
• Political scientists sometimes refer to modern
  presidents as
• they oversee and manage the bureaucracy

2
The Job of the Federal Bureaucracy

• 1 constitutionally mandated job
• Congress and POTUS cannot pass detailed enough
  laws
• Reasonable judgment in implementing laws

3 ways of implementing
3
Making Regulations

• Detailed instructions to government and the
  nation
• Citizens, corporations, government what they
  can/cannot do or must/must not do
• Administrative Procedure Act of 1946
• Negotiated Rulemaking Act of 1990

2013
Federal Regulations
laws
Analysis of regulations http//research.columbian
.gwu.edu/regulatorystudies/regstats