The Executive Bureaucracy Flashcards

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What is the function of the executive branch?

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-Execute laws passed by Congress

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What is a Bureaucracy?

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  • A hierarchal arranged organization that carries tasks in an compartmentalized fashion.
  • Carry out laws under the President
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3
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How does Bureaucracy effect all citizen daily lives?

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-Departments:
–>Mail services
–> Military (department of defense)
–> Homeland Security
–> FDA
are some organization that influence our daily lives

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Why has Bureaucracy grown to be the size it is today?

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-As society grew, new tasked emerged that required federal government to expand bureaucracy

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What are the Era in which caused Bureaucracy to expand?

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  • Progressive Era (1900-1920)
  • New Deal Era ( 1932-1945)
  • Great Society Era (1964-1980)
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What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Progressive Era?

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  • Government first began experience situations never encountered before
  • Urbanization, with the influx of people to the city caused condition to arise for government to create bureaucracies.
  • ex) Child Labor Laws
  • ex) WW 1 expanded department of Defense
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What is the New Deal Era?

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  • FDR proposed plan to eliminate the Great Depression
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What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the New Deal Era?

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  • Expansion of Bureaucracy was needed to fill in the tasks of the New Deal
  • ex) Agriculture administration
  • ex) Social Welfare programs
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What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Great Society Era?

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  • ex) Creation of New Environmental protection

- ex) Increased Civil Rights call for Justice Department

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What is the Great Society Era?

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-social reforms of poverty and racial injustice

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