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| a large complex organization in which employees have specific job responsibilities and work within a hierarchy of authority |
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| employees of a bureaucracy, usually meaning a government bureaucracy |
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| the biggest units of the executive branch, covering a broad area of government responsibility. The heads of the departments, or secretaries, form the presidents cabinet |
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| executive agencies that are not part of the cabinet (CIA) |
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| agencies of the executive branch of government that control or direct some aspect of the economy. (FCC) |
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| Government agencies that perform services that might be provided by the private sector but that either involve insufficient financial incentive or are better provided when they are somehow linked to the government. (postal service) |
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| the system by whihc most appointments to the federal bureaucrazy are made, to ensure that government jobs are filled on the basis of merit and that employees are not fired for political reasons (FBI Agents, park rangers) |
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| Administrative discretion |
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| the latitude that congress gives agencies to make policy in spirit of their legislative mandate |
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| the administrative process that results in the issuance of regulations by government agencies |
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| administrative rules that guide the operation of a government program |
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| policy making characterized by a series of decisions, each instituting modest change |
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| an organizations informal unwritten rules that guide individual behavior |
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| the process of putting specific policies into operation |
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| Government intervention in the workings of a business market to promote some socially desired goal |
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| a bureaucratic reform by which the government reduces its role as a regulator of business |
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| competition and outsourcing |
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| procedures that allow private contractors to bid for jobs previously held exclusively by government employees |
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| Government Performance and Results Act |
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| a law requiring each government agency to implement quantifiable standards to measure its performance in meeting stated program goals |
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