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| money formally set aside for a specific use that originates from the house appropriations committee |
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| authorization legislation |
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| legislation that originates in a legislative committee stating the maximum amount of money that an agency may spend on a given program |
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| a job description by an agency which is tailor-made for a specific person |
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| a large organization composed of appointed officers in which authority is divided among several managers |
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| an informal understanding among fellow employees of an agency as to how they are supposed to act. |
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| the right of congressional committees to pass on certain agency decisions, although usually not binding. |
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| the set of civil servants appointed on the basis of a written exam administered by the office of personnel management |
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| a bureaucratic pathology in which two government agencies seem to be doing the same thing |
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| the ability of a bureaucracy to choose courses of action and make policies not spelled out in advance by laws |
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| a bureaucratic pathology in which two government agencies seem to be doing the same thing |
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| freedom of information act |
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| a law passed in 1966 giving citizens the right to inspect all government records except those containing military, intelliegnce or trade secrets |
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| the policy making network composed of a government agency, a congressional committee, and an interest group. this network is less common today because of the variety of interest groups that exist and the proliferation of congressional subcommittees |
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| members of washington based interest groups congressional staffers, university facluty, experts participating in think tanks, and representatives of the mass media who regularly debate government policy on a certain subject. such networks are replacing iron triangles |
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| a belief in a freely competitive economy that was widely held in the late nineteenth century. |
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| congressional veto of an executive decision during the specified period it must lie before congress before it can take effect. the veto is effected thourhg a resolution of dissapproval passed by either house or by both houses |
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| national environmental policy act |
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| a law passed in 1969 requiring agencies to issue an environmental impact statement before undertaking any major action affecting the environment |
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| noncareer executive assignemntes |
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| a form of patronage under the excepted service given to high-ranking members of the regulare competitive service, or to persons brought into the civil service at a high level who are advocates of presidential programs |
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| a law passed in 1976 requiring agency meetings to be open to the public unless certain specified matters are being discussed |
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| congressional supervision of the bureaucracy |
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| bureaucratic appointments made on the basis of political considerations. federsal legilation significantly limits such appointments today |
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| a law passed in 1883 which began the process of transferring federal jobs from patongae to the merit system |
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| a law passed in 1974 requiring governmetn files about individuals to be kept confidential |
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