POLI 2051 Chapter : Poli Sci Ch 14
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The bureaucrats: myths and realities, americans dislike bureaucrats, they are effective and beneficial, bureaucracies are not growing, state and local: growing, federal: shrinking, standard way of organizing a large nation, only 1 in 7 work in d. c. Many work in post office, social sec, etc: civil servants, diversity, development of the civil service system, patronage vs. 14. 2 how the federal bureaucracy is organized11/5/2014 2:35:00 am. Cabinet departments: there are 15, each led by a secretary chosen by the president. Independent regulatory commissions (ircs: make and support rules, judge disputes over rules, fcc, ftc, etc, governed by 5-10 commissioners with fixed terms, somewhat insulated from politics, regulatory capture. Government corporations: different from other government agencies, provide services that could be provided by a private sector, charge consumers at a cheaper rate, tennessee valley authority (tva, u. s. Independent executive agencies: 45-50 agencies, headed by an administrator appointed by the president, epa, nasa, etc.
