GVPT 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: W. M. Keck Observatory
20 Apr 2016
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Includes white house office, national security council, office of management. Defined as system of civil servants and political appointees who implement decision of. The us constitution does not include details for a bureaucracy. The bureaucracy is part of the executive branch. What does the bureaucracy do: regulations (made by congress or the president, but implemented by the bureaucracy, procurement (i. e government purchases, providing services (tsa, national park employees etc, research and development, managing and directing. The answer depends on how you define it Plus millions more who are members of the armed forces, employed by federal government contractors, or work on projects funded by federal grants. Comparatively, us bureaucracy is quite small compared to other industrial democracies. What explains growth in bureaucracy: changed goals (or missions) of government, response to changes in size of country and population, changes in science and technology, ambitious administrators ( budget maximizers )
