Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Chapter 15
I. Introduction
A. Classic conception of bureaucracy (Max Weber)
1. Hierarchical authority structure
4. The Other Route to Federal Jobs: Recruiting from the Plum Book
a) Published by Congress.
2. It includes:
2. Lack of Clarity.
3. Lack of Resources.
4. Administrative Routine.
5. Administrator’s Dispositions.
6. Fragmentation.
4. Those carrying out the law had obvious authority and vigor to do
so.
V. Bureaucracies as Regulators
A. Regulation in the Economy and in Everyday Life
1. Regulation: Use of governmental authority to control or change
some practice in the private sector.
D. Toward Deregulation
1. Deregulation: The lifting of restrictions on business, industry,
and professional activities.
2. Regulatory problems:
a) Raises prices
d) Reorganize an agency.
c) Hold hearings.
2. Iron Triangles