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Bureaucracies Explained and Iron Triangles

Bureaucracies Explained and Iron Triangles. 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?.

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Bureaucracies Explained and Iron Triangles

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  1. Bureaucracies Explained and Iron Triangles

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. Policy makers • Bureaucracies/bureaucrats spend about $3 trillion of American GDP • Unelected policymakers • Due to how influential they are, Presidents attempt to control bureaucracies

  7. 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

  8. _____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

  9. _____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.

  10. 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.

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