Bureaucracies Explained and Iron Triangles
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Regulated
The use of gov’t authority to control the private
sector
Occurs everyday in your lives
EPA: require pollution control
FTC: unfair advertising claims
Why can they do this?
Munn v. Illinois (1877): upheld Congress’s right to
regulate business.
Issue: Can Congress regulate warehouse prices of a
Chicago warehouse
Reasoning: Congress could regulate business practices
as they are a part of commerce
What makes a
regulation
3 elements all regulations have
1) A grant of power/direction from Congress
2) A set of rules and guidelines for the agency itself
3) Some means of enforcing compliance with the
regulation
Get out of here
Regulation
Deregulation: lifting of government restrictions.
Why? (allegedly)
Raising prices: regulations make goods cost more
Hurting America’s competitive position:
Other nations have fewer(less expensive) regulations
Failure to work well: may be hard to enforce, or just
too cumbersome.
Policy makers
Bureaucracies/bureaucrats spend about $3 trillion of
American GDP
Unelected policymakers
Due to how influential they are, Presidents attempt
to control bureaucracies
How?
1. Appoint the head of the agency to achieve means
2. Issue orders
Executive Order: Presidential order that carries the
weight of law.
3. Alter an agencies budget
4. Reorganize the bureau
_____24.) ____ systems are designed to hire and
promote members of the bureaucracy on the basis of
merit and to create a nonpartisan government
service.
A.) Patronage
B.) Civil service
C.) Hatch
D.) Civilian
E.) Military
_____22.) The authority of administrative actors to
select among various responses to a given problem is
called
A.) policy implementation.
B.) selective management.
C.) the merit principle.
D.) the definition of alternatives.
E.) administrative discretion.
2.) In the first half of United States history,
bureaucracies tended to act in a client-oriented role.
However, since the early 1900s, the bureaucracy has
become more of a regulator.
a.) Identify TWO agencies that serve in a regulatory
capacity and give an example of a regulation each
has made.
b.) Describe ONE complaint made about the federal
bureaucracy acting in the role of a regulator.