Political Science 2244E Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Civil Service Retirement System, Red Tape

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2244E
• Professor: Peter A Ferguson

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Bureaucracy is an outgrowth of representative democracy. For most people and politicians, bureaucracy is a pejorative word implying waste, confusion, red tape, and rigidity. A bureaucracy is a large, complex organization composed of appointed officials. By complex, we mean that authority is divided among several managers; no one person is able to make all the decisions. In the united states, the constitution permits both the president and. Much of our federal bureaucracy operates on the principle of government by proxy. In every representative government, the voters elect legislators who make the laws, but i(cid:374) this (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455) the (cid:271)ureau(cid:272)rats ofte(cid:374) pa(cid:455) other people to do the (cid:449)ork. These (cid:862)other people(cid:863) i(cid:374)(cid:272)lude state a(cid:374)d lo(cid:272)al go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts, (cid:271)usi(cid:374)ess fir(cid:373)s, and non- profit organizations: social security, medicaid. Critics of our government-by-proxy system argue that it does not keep track of how the money we send to public and private agencies is used moreover, the president and.