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Cards Term bureaucracy Definition A form of organization tha operates through impersonal, uniform rules and procedures Term department Definition Usually the largest organization in government; also the highest rank in federal hierarchy Term independant agency Definition A government entity tha is independant of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches Term independent regulatory Definition A government agency or commission with regulatory power whose independnece is protected by Congress Term government corporation Definition A government agency that operates like a busn, created to secure greater freedom of action and flexibility for a particular program Term Senior Executive Service Definition Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible, mobile corps of senior career executives who work closely with presidential appointees to manage government Term spoils system Definition A system of public employment based on rewarding paty loyalists and friends Term merit system Definition A system of public employment in which selection and promotion depend on demonstrated performance rather than poolitical patronage Term Hatch Act Definition Federal statute barring federal employees from active participation in certain kinds of politics and protecting them from being fired on partisan grounds Term implementation Definition The process of putting a law into practice through bureaucratic rules or spending Term adminstrative discretion Definition Authority given by Congress to the federal bureaucracy to use reasonable judgment in implementing the laws Term uncontrollable spending Definition The portion of the federal budget that is spent on programs, Social security, that the president and Congress are unwilling to cut Term entitlement program Definition Programs such as unemployment insurance, disaster relief, or disablility payments tha provide benefits to all eligible citizins Term entitlement programs indexing Definition Providing automatic increases to compensation