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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy. 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. Weberian Model of Bureaucracy.

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Bureaucracy

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  1. Bureaucracy

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Views of Bureaucracy • Acquisitive • Monopolisitic • Bureaucratic Politics (G. Allison)

  5. Decision Making

  6. Types of bureaucratic structures • Cabinet departments • Independent executive agencies • Independent regulatory agencies • Government corporations

  7. US Govt Org Chart

  8. Employees • Political appointees • Civil service • Elites • Patronage • Merit System

  9. Legislation • Enabling • Sunshine • Sunset

  10. Constraints on bureaucracy • Congress • President • Judiciary

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