PSCI 210 Exam 3 Questions With Correct
Answers.
Characteristics of bureaucracies - answerhierarchy
division of labor
formal rules
fixed routines
equal rules for all
technical qualifications
division of labor in bureaucracies - answerclearly defined roles + duties assigned to those
roles
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Characteristics of bureaucracies - answer✔✔hierarchy
division of labor
formal rules
fixed routines
equal rules for all
technical qualifications
division of labor in bureaucracies - answer✔✔clearly defined roles + duties assigned to those
roles
ex: professors
- 40% instruction/ teaching
- 40% research
- 20% service
formal rules in bureaucracies - answer✔✔manuals
guidelines
behavioral expectations
differences between public and private bureaucracies - answer✔✔profit motive
profit motive for public v. private bureaucracies - answer✔✔PRIVATE: success is easily defined
(more $$ = more success, less $$ = failure)
PUBLIC: success is harder to define due to goals not easily defined by profit goals
ex: success @MSU -> do we asses grad rates? employment rates post grad? retention rates?
what bureaucracies do - answer✔✔implementation (can be simple or tricky depending on the
type) (putting the rules in place - carrying out oversight)
create regulations (mandated by something congress chose to do ex: no smoking on planes)
procurement (how we get things)
provide services (tangible things like passports, access to NP's, response to natural disasters)
research + development (how to test vaccines, wolf management)
manage (gov't contractors/priv contractors (contracts))
history of bureaucracies - answer✔✔1. early days (1776 - 1828)
2. spoils system (1828 - 1880s)
3. civil service (1883)
4. The New Deal Administrative State (1930s)
5. Great Society (1960s)
Regan's Revolution (1980s)
The early days of bureaucracies - answer✔✔1776 - 1828
federal gov't didn't do much
roles included: postal service and revenue collection (port tariffs/treasury)
bureaucracy = really small -> state gov't was predominate
The Spoils system - answer✔✔1828-1880s
Andrew Jackson Presidency
a system in which government jobs are given out as political favors
creation of SOP's (standard operating procedures)
the mass replacement of qualified people with his own friends regardless of qualification
used presidency to fun re-election
Civil Service - answer✔✔1883
response to the spoils system
Pendleton Civil Service act of 1883
Sherman Anti-trust Act (end of 1880s)
Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 - answer✔✔- created positions in government under a "civil
service category" meaning only people with the right qualifications/ merit could hold that
position
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