JOHN CLYDE M.

RANCHEZ (Junior High)

  Bureaucracy
IS A SYSTEMATIZED AND COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF OFFICES, TASKS, RULES AND
PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION THAT ARE EMPLOYED BY ALL LARGE SCALE
INSTITUTIONS TO COORDINATE THE WORK OF THEIR PERSONNEL
  PURPOSE
TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR GOVERNMENTS TO ACCOMPLISH TASKS QUICKLY AND TO
BASICALLY OPERATE AT ALL.
  Executive departments
Executive departments mostly provide services through sub-agencies.
  BUREAUCRATS…
1. IMPLEMENT LAWS THAT CONGRESS WRITES
2. MAKE & ENFORCE THEIR OWN RULES
3. SETTLE DISPUTES THROUGH ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION
BUREAUCRACIES DON’T JUST ENFORCE THE RULES; THEY MAKE NEW ONES CALLED
REGULATIONS
  Bureaucratic Culture
“Persistent patterened way of thinking about the central tasks of and human relationships within the
organization. Culture is to an organization what personality is to an individual. Like human culture
generally, it is passed on from one generation to the next. It changes slowly, if at all.” by Political
Scientist James Q. wilson.
As partisans of their agencies and missions, bureaucrats are necessarily politicians.
  Who controls the bureaucracy?
Congress keep its bureaucratic agents; how?
  Controlling bureaucracy
BEFORE THE FACT CONTROLS ARE ATTEMPTS TO LIMIT BUREAUCRATS DISCRETION
THROUGH THE WAY THAT THE BUREAUCRACY ITSELF IS SET UP.
THE BEST WAY TO CONTROL WHAT A BUREAUCRACY IS ABLE TO DO IS THROUGH THE
APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS.
DEREGULATION WHICH IS WHEN CONGRESS LIMITS THE NUMBER OF REGULATIONS
THAT AN AGENCY IS ALLOWED TO ENFORCE.
DEVOLUTION IS WHEN CONGRESS SHIFTS, OR DEVOLVES, THE TASK, OR BURDEN, OF
REGULATION FROM A FEDERAL AGENCY TO STATES AND LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES.

Bureaucracy, Reforms, and Civil Society

JOHN CLYDE M. RANCHEZ (Junior High)

  POWER OF BUREAUCRACY
1. PRIVATIZATION
2. BUREAUCRACIES ARE HUGE AND THEY DO A TON OF THINGS
ONCE CREATED, BUREAUCRACIES CREATE POLITICAL CONSTITUENCIES BY MAKING
THEMSELVES NECESSARY TO PEOPLE.
  BUREAUCRACY THEORY BY MAX WEBER
“ACCORDING TO HIM, BUREAUCRACY IS THE MOST EFFICIENT FORM OF ORGNIZATION.
PRINCIPLES OF BUREAUCRATIC THEORY”
1. SYSTEMATIC CONTROL
2. JOB SPECIALIZATION
3. AUTHORITY HIERARCHY
4. FORMAL SELECTION
5. FORMAL RULES AND REGULATIONS
6. IMPERSONALITY
7. CAREER ORIENTATION

Bureaucracy, Reforms, and Civil Society