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Chapter 7: The Executive Branch: Bureaucracy in a Democracy
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 2
11/06/2011

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Bureaucracy
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The Complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles of organization that are employed by all large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnel
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Implementation
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The efforts of departments and agencies to translate laws into specific bureaucratic routines
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Rule Making
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A quasi-legislative administrative process that produces regulations by government agencies
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Administrative Adjudication
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The application rules and precedents to specific cases to settle disputes with regulated parties
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Clientele Agency
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A department or bureau of government whose mission is to promote, serve, or represent a particular interest
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Regulatory Agency
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A department bureau or independent agency whose primary mission is to eliminate or restrict certain behaviors defined as negative in themselves or negative in their consequences
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Administrative Legislation
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Rules made by regulatory agencies and commissions
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Fiscal Policy
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Policies that use spending and taxing to accomplish policy purposes
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Monetary Policy
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Policies that control the supply of money, interest rates, and the availability of credit
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Federal Reserve System (The Fed)
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Consisting of 12 federal reserve districts, The Fed facilitates exchanges of cash, checks, and credit.
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Bureaucratic Drift
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The oft-observed phenomenon of bureaucratic implementation that produces policy more to the liking of the bureaucracy than faithful to original intention of the legislation that created it but without triggering a political reaction from elected officials
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Coalitional Drift
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The Prospect that enacted policy will changed because the composition of the enacting coalition is temporary and provisional
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Oversight
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The effort by Congress, through hearings, investigations,and other techniques to exercise control over the activities of executive agencies
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Deregulation
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The policy of reducing or eliminating regulatory restraints on the conduct of people or private institutions
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Devolution
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The Policy of removing a program from one level of government by deregulating it or passing it down to a lower level
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Privatization
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The act of moving all or a part of a program from the public sector to the private sector
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