Key Terms - Week 10

The Bureaucracy

- bureaucracy
- spoils system
- universalistic politics
- Pendleton Civil Service Act
- bureaucratic model
- - hierarchy
- - division of labor
- - fixed routine
- - equal rules
- - technical qualifications
- bureaucratic pathologies
- - rote
- - imperialism
- - lack of coordination
- - clientelism
- rule making
- proposed rule
- final rule
- implementation
- street level bureaucracy
- civil servants
- cabinet departments
- rotating top officials
- independent regulatory commissions
- regulatory capture
- Office of Personnel Management
- General Services Administration
- private contractors
- control of the bureaucracy
- - the people
- - the president
- - - overhead democracy
- - Congress
- - - funding
- - - oversight
- - - authorization
- - - reorganization
- - - principal agent theory
- - interest groups
- bureaucratic autonomy
- - whistleblowers
- Freedom of Information Act