Unit 2 – Branches of Government
Chapter 5: The Bureaucracy
Vocabulary:
Appropriations
Civil Service Reform
Act
Compliance
monitoring
Discretionary authority
Freedom of
Information Act
Hatch Act
Iron triangles
Issue networks
Legislative veto
Merit system
Red tape
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Reading Questions:
1. Give one example of an iron triangle. Issue Network.
2. What is the function of the bureaucracy?
3. Which pseudo-legislative and pseudo-executive powers do they have?
4. How do they interact with the Legislative Branch? Executive Branch? Judicial Branch?
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