POLI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Al Gore
13 Mar 2017
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Congress delegates it"s legislative power by giving authority to the bureaucracies: bureaucratic adjudication: the agencies the rights/duties of specific parties under the agency"s rules. Clinton and vp gore: collapse of the soviet union and end of cold war allowed for reductions in military spending, recently federal spending has been increasing annually and war on terror has required more spending. Democrats in congress during an economic recession led to growth spurt for federal bureaucracy: organization of bureaucracy, cabinet departments: 15 departments with a head secretary who reports to the president directly (they make up his cabinet). The inner cabinet includes the head of the most important departments. The executive cabinet department have broad authority over general policy areas, most of which are collections of agencies with different specific focuses. Response, science and technology, information analysis and infrastructure. Protection, the secret service, and the u. s. coast guard): independent agencies: lack high status of cabinet departments.
