Bureaucracies Explained and Iron

Triangles

The use of gov’t authority to control the

private sector

Occurs everyday in your lives EPA: require pollution control FTC: unfair advertising claims

Regulated

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

Why can they do this?

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

What makes a 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.

Get out of here Regulation

Bureaucracies/bureaucrats spend about $3

trillion of American GDP Unelected policymakers

Due to how influential they are, Presidents attempt to control bureaucracies

Policy makers

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

How?

_____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.