POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Personal Rights, Spoils System, Cuban Missile Crisis
6 Jul 2018
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Bureaucracy: the complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles of organization used by large institutions to coordinate work. Congress writes laws that are often very broad. The bureaucracy defines what policy will mean in practice. At best, the bureaucracy ensures fair and accountable administration. Epa -- proposes and enforces regulations that protect americans" health and the environment. Legislative vs. executive: how might an expanding bureaucracy lead to a clash between. It is mechanistic : authority is centralized, easy for management to monitor outcomes. 3: standard operating procedures (sops) -- everything is standardized, stability across administrations and elections. It allow economies of scale : departments share resources efficiently, job specialization means workers are more efficient and productive. Usib failed to predict that the ussr would put missiles in cuba. 9-12 days for a cia agent"s sighting of a missile in cuba to make its way to washington.
