POL SCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: The American Prospect, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, Government Accountability Office
11 Apr 2017
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Logic of agency design under separated institutions sharing power. Lewis piece this is really just to illustrate the way some modern presidents add layers of extra political appointees. You won"t, however, need to know this stuff for the final. You can find it at this link: http://www. prospect. org/cs/articles?article=bigger_and_better (a) max weber"s characteristic features of bureaucratic institutions. Hierarchical structure: command goes down, information goes up. Career system: merit based, generally good job security. Specified goals: the whole organization is aimed at specified goals (vs e. g. market economics) Beginning of the merit system, although initially only applied to 10% of civil service jobs could be extended by exec order of the president: by 1933 applied to 80% civil service jobs. Job security, competitive exams and merit rather than tenure based promotion. The reasons for delegating authority to new agencies. Relates to the expansion of the federal government in numbers and scope: in order to expand the.
