AP Government: Chapter 13- The Bureaucracy
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 annual authorization | Legislative permission to begin or continue a government program or agency. An authorization may grant permission to spend a certain sum of money. |
| appropriation | A legislative grant of money to finance a government program |
| authorization legislation | Legislative permission to begin or continue a government program or agency. |
| bureaucracy | A large complex organization composed of appointed officials. |
| committee clearance | The ability of a congressional committee to review and approve certain agency decisions in advance and without passing a law. |
| competitive service | The government offices to which people are appointed on the grounds of merit as ascertained by a written examination or by having met certain selection criteria. |
| discretionary authority | The extent to which appointed bureaucrats can choose courses of action and make policies that are not spelled out in advance by laws. |
| excepted service | Appointment of officials not based on the criteria specified by OPM. |
| iron triangle | A close relationship between an agency, a congressional committee and an interest group that often becomes a mutually advantageous alliance. |
| issue networks | A network of people in Washington-based interest groups, on congressional staffs, in universities and think tanks, and in the mass media who regularly discuss and advocate public policies. |
| laissez-faire | An economic theory that government should not regulate or interfere with commerce. |
| legislative veto | The rejection of a presidential or administrative agency action by a vote of one or both houses of Congress without the consent of the president. |
| name-request job | A job to be filled by a person whom a government agency has identified by name. |
| patronage | (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support |
| Pendelton Act | established the United States Civil Service Commission, which placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called spoils system. The act provided for some government jobs to be filled on the basis of competitive exams |
| red tape | Complex bureaucratic rules and procedures taht must be followed to get something done. |
| Schedule C | Government jobs having a confidential or policy-making character |
| Senior Executive Service | Established by Congress in 1978 as a flexible, mobile corps of senior career executives who work closely with presidential appointees to manage government. |
| spoils system | Another phrase for political patronage--that is, the practice of giving the fruits of a party's victory, such as jobs and contracts, to the loyal members of that party. |
| trust funds | Funds for government programs that are collected and spent outside the regular government budget. |
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