POLS 1101 Lecture 12 Outline of Last Lecture I Presidential Vetoes II Appointments III Orders Agreements and Signing Statements IV Presidential Signing Statements V Administrative Resources VI The Vice President VII Investigations Impeachments and Electoral Pressures Outline of Current Lecture I Federal Bureaucracy II Saturday Night Massacre III Private Sector Competition A Prisoner s Dilemma IV Development of the Executive Bureaucracy A Growth in Size B Total Executive Branch Employment C Spoils System D Civil Service E Modern Reforms Current Lecture I Federal Bureaucracy collection of agencies that implement federal policy Bureaucracy refers to the agencies a Civilian bureaucracies b Military bureaucracies Bureaucrats are those who work for the government but are not elected Apply and are hired like a normal job a Implement policies Congress and the president decide upon b Agents to two principals II III President Congress and even court rulings so three principles Saturday Night Massacre Water gate scandal Saturday night massacre Nixon didn t want to release all of the evidence Cox received subpoenas for 9 of these tapes Nixon ordered for them to fire cox and everyone refused he was left by himself Everybody called for Nixon s impeachment him resigning Private Sector Competition A Prisoner s Dilemma IV Development of the Executive Bureaucracy A Growth in Size Increased nationalization led to the bureaucracy s growth Spikes in the size are correlated with reform and new programs a Early 1900s and the economy military b 1930s and the New Deal c 1960s 1970s and the Great Society d The role of war B Total Executive Branch Employment C Spoils System To the victorious party go the spoils Jackson rewarded supporters with jobs in the bureaucracy a Patronage Led to growth but also interfered with implementation Congress established the civil service D Civil Service Pendleton Act of 1883 a Most bureaucrats are civil servants b Jobs are protected from patronage and they cannot be fired for political reasons Break up role of party bosses E Modern Reforms Bureaucracy is widely seen as inefficient It can be difficult to reform the bureaucracy a Politicians support reform in principle but avoid actual reforms b Shrinking the bureaucracy could hurt constituents
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