PSC 121 Study Guide - Final Guide: Plurality Voting System, The Literary Digest, Tax Expenditure
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Topics included: bureaucratic structure, development, and control rap 7. 2 & l8 slides, political parties preston, julia and john cushman. The polarized electorate. : political ambition and running for office lawless, jennifer l. and richard l. fox. Girls just wanna not run: the gender gap in young americans" political ambition. & Section 1 bureaucratic structure, development, and control. Executive branch of government: max weber"s components of bureaucracy was a solution to coordination and principal-agent problems, division of labor, hierarchy, consistent rules. Impersonality: career system, us bureaucracy violates weber"s rules in two ways, hierarchy, different types of agencies, executive agencies. Heads of these agencies serve at president"s. Fcc: controlling the bureaucracy is difficult because bureaucrats should be accountable to democratically elected leaders but require autonomy to take advantage of expertise. Forum for private citizens to monitor the procedures of agencies: congress (most powerful)