POS 2041 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Federal Trade Commission, Civil Service Reform Act Of 1978, Regulatory Agency
Document Summary
Bureaucracy: large, complex, hierarchically structured administrative organization that carries out specific functions: uses. Allows each person to concentrate on their area of knowledge and expertise. Power to act resides in the position rather than in the person: growth. Cost of maintaining the government: high and growing, costly as it provides numerous services for americans. Federal spending: social spending, defense, everything else. Independent executive agencies: federal agency that is not located within a cabinet department: creation of independent agencies, danger of partisan politics. Partisan politics: political actions or decisions that benefit a particular party. Independent regulatory agencies: responsible for creating and implementing rules that: regulate private activity, protect the public interest in a particular sector of the economy. Government corporation: agency of the government that is run as a business enterprise: facing losses, intermediate forms of organization. Legislative rule: administrative agency rule that carries the same weight as a statute enacted by a legislature.
