POLS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, George W. Bush, Basic Law
26 Aug 2016
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Picking someone who would do the job effectively: some jobs in the bureaucracy are handed out as political favors called. Big problem in the us until civil service reform in the 1880s b. ii. Before, most jobs were handed out as political favors - now there is criteria to get a job in the federal government: bureaucrats are selected based on: c. i. Civil service, postal service, or foreign service exams c. ii. Graduation from a university tasked with training bureaucrats c. ii. 1. c. ii. 2. French civil service funneled through three universities c. iii. Dedication to the governing ideology of the country c. iii. 1. In authoritarian countries: bureaucrats are involved in, revenue collection, national defense b. i. Ex- work for health departments: regulation d. i. Ex- epa, national highway traffic safety administration: research e. i. Ex- nasa, cdc, department of energy: size of the bureaucracy, bureaucracy is usually expanding a. i. Efforts to trim the bureaucracy, but bureaucracies almost never shrink, they always take on new responsibilities a. ii.
