The Federal Bureaucracy

Question 1

German sociologist who studied bureaucracy and asserted that it is a disciplined hierarchy, which provides efficiency for government

Answer 1

Max Weber

Question 2

advisory body comprised of the Vice President, the heads of the executive departments, and other designated officials (including heads of agencies and officials within the executive office of the President)

Answer 2

cabinet

Question 3

the 15 major departments within the executive branch (state, defense, justice, treasury, interior, agriculture, commerce, labor, health and human services, housing and urban development, transportation, education, energy, veterans affairs, and homeland security)

Answer 3

executive departments

Question 4

agencies placed within the 15 executive departments (e.g. the Federal Bureau of Investigation within the Justice Department)

Answer 4

departmental agencies

Question 5

agencies established by Congress to provide market-oriented product or services (e.g. Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation)

Answer 5

independent agencies

Question 6

composed of the offices and agencies within the executive branch bureaucracy that directly assist presidential duties; the White House Chief of Staff manages the EOP; it was established by the 1939 Reorganization Act

Answer 6

Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Question 7

office within the Executive Office of the President (EOP); its principal function is to produce and justify the President’s budget; the OMB director is subject to Senate confirmation

Answer 7

Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

Question 8

the implementation of policies favoring the interests of the bureaucracy, not those of Congress

Answer 8

bureaucratic drift

Question 9

the prospect that enacted bureaucratic policies will “drift” away from what was originally intended; it occurs because the composition of a legislative coalition is temporary

Answer 9

coalition drift

Question 10

phrase used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to refer to the expansive and increasingly autonomous federal bureaucracy

Answer 10

“fourth branch” of government

Question 11

committee created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 to examine the growing and increasingly autonomous federal bureaucracy; it was composed of Louis Brownlow, Charles Merriam, and Luther Gullick; its recommendations led to the enactment of the 1939 Reorganization Act

Answer 11

President’s Committee on Administrative Management (Brownlow Committee)