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Bureaucracy. Five Function of Bureaucrats. Implement the law Provide expertise Provide research and information to the President and other executive officials Provide research and information to Congress Quasi-judicial powers and responsibilities. Weberian Model of Bureaucracy.
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Five Function of Bureaucrats • Implement the law • Provide expertise • Provide research and information to the President and other executive officials • Provide research and information to Congress • Quasi-judicial powers and responsibilities
Weberian Model of Bureaucracy Bureaucracies as rational, hierarchical organizations in which power flows from the top downward • Decisions are based on logical reasoning and data analysis. • Division of labor • Chain of command • Formal rules • Apolitical (neutral decision making) • Advancement based upon merit • Bureaucrats are salaried by superior institutions
Views of Bureaucracy • Acquisitive • Monopolisitic • Bureaucratic Politics (G. Allison)
Types of bureaucratic structures • Cabinet departments • Independent executive agencies • Independent regulatory agencies • Government corporations
Employees • Political appointees • Civil service • Elites • Patronage • Merit System
Legislation • Enabling • Sunshine • Sunset
Constraints on bureaucracy • Congress • President • Judiciary