AP Government. Name Date Due Date. Part I Chapter Outline DATE DUE. ASSIGNMENTS 1. Thirteen Days w/ viewing guide 2. Intro to Thirteen Days Paper

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1 Name Date Due Date Part I Chapter Outline DATE DUE Tues., Jan 26 Wed., Jan 27 Thurs., Jan 28 Fri., Jan 29 Mon., Feb 1 Tues., Feb 2 Wed., Feb 3 Thurs., Feb 4 Fri., Feb 5 Mon., Feb 8 Tues., Feb 9 ASSIGNMENTS 1. Thirteen Days w/ viewing guide 2. Intro to Thirteen Days Paper 1. Thirteen Days 1. Intro to Paper 2. Read Edwards p Edwards Reading? s Terms Thirteen Days 1. 1 st One-Pager DUE 2. Letter to Congress #1 DUE 3. Thirteen Days 1. Read Edwards p Edwards Reading Questions Terms Read Edwards p Edwards Reading Questions Terms Read Edwards p Edwards Reading Questions Terms Discussion of Bureaucratic Constraints 4. Discussion of Reforming the 5. Does it need to be reformed? 1. Woll Reading #63 Questions to be assigned 2. James Q Wilson reading handout questions to be assigned 1. Test 2. Paper Due Part II. Objectives 1. Describe the bureaucrats who they are, how they got there, and what they do. 2. Discuss how the federal bureaucracy is organized. 3. Explain how bureaucracies function as implementers of public policy. 4. Explain how bureaucracies function as regulators 5. Evaluate the problem of controlling bureaucracies in a democratic government and how bureaucracies affect the scope of government. Part III. Reading Questions 1. List five elements of the Weberian model of bureaucracy. 2. List four prevalent myths about bureaucracy. 3. What is the difference between patronage and the merit principle? Then present a brief argument for why PATRONAGE would be a better system 4. What is the purpose of the Hatch Act? 5. What are some of the common characteristics of plum book appointees? 6. What are the four basic types of agencies in the federal executive branch and provide two examples of each?

2 7. Explain the relationship between interest groups and independent regulatory agencies. 8. In what two ways are government corporations like private corporations and different from other parts of the government? 9. What are the three biggest independent executive agencies? 10. What are the three minimum elements of implementation? 11. List six reasons why policy implementation might fail. 12. What are three advantages of using standard operating procedure? 13. What is meant by administrative discretion? Give an example. 14. What is the significance of Munn v. Illinois (1877)? 15. List three elements common to all regulation. 16. What is the difference between command-and-control policy and incentive system? 17. List three criticisms of regulation. 18. List four methods in which the president can control the bureaucracy. 19. List four methods in which Congress can control the bureaucracy. 20. Explain the differences between an iron triangle and an issue network. 21. What effect does bureaucracy have on the scope of government? Part IV. Key Terms 1. bureaucracy 2. patronage 3. Pendleton Civil Service Act 4. spoils system th Amendment 6. civil service 7. merit principle

3 8. Hatch Act 9. competitive service 10. Civil Service Reform Act of Whistle Blower Protection Act of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 13. GS (General Schedule) rating 14. Senior Executive services 15. plum book Independent regulatory agency 17. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) 18. Federal Reserve Board (FED) 19. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

4 20. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 21. Surface Transportation Board (STB) 22. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 23. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 24. Humphrey s Executor v. US (1935) government corporations 26. Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPR) 27. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 28. US Postal Service (USPS) 29. Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) independent executive agencies 31. General Services Administration (GSA)

5 32. National Science Foundation (NSF) 33. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 34. Authorization bill 35. appropriations bill 36. policy implementation 37. Title IX (Education Act of 1972) 38. Immigration and Naturalization Service (USCIS) standard operating procedures 40. administrative discretion 41. street-level bureaucrats 42. regulation 43. deregulation

6 44. command-and-control policy 45. incentive system 46. executive orders 47. iron triangles 48. issue networks 49. legislative veto