U.S. Federal Bureaucracy and Public Policy Worksheet

Step 1: Complete the federal bureaucracy matrix to demonstrate how it influences the U.S. political system. Include APA citations for all unoriginal ideas, facts, or definitions.

Elements of federal bureaucracy	In 100-250 words, explain each element, and discuss how it affects or influences the U.S. political system.
Civil servants
Government corporation
Cabinet departments
Independent regulatory agencies
Independent executive agencies
Merit system
Public administration
Spoils system
Privatization
Negotiated rulemaking

Step 2: Complete the public policy matrix to explain and the compare the main policy types.

Types of public policy	Explanation or definition	How is it the same or different from the other types of policy?	Example of the type of policy
Distributive policy
Regulatory policy
Redistributive policy

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POL/115 Week 3 Assignment

U.S. Federal Bureaucracy and Public Policy

Step 1: Complete the federal bureaucracy matrix to demonstrate how it influences the U.S. political system. Include APA citations for all unoriginal ideas, facts, or definitions.

Elements of federal bureaucracy	In 100-250 words, explain each element, and discuss how it affects or influences the U.S. political system.
Civil servants	These are employees to the government. They include employees that work to ensure that government institutions successfully deliver on their mandate to the public. Taking the government as an organization, then the civil servants include the workers who ensure that the organization achieves its mandate by delivering the services or products the organization intends to deliver to the public. Notably, employees in different departments associated with the government are part of the civil service, drawing their salary from the taxpayer. Consequently, they influence the political system by ensuring that the public can experience some form of tangible input of the government on public welfare.
Government corporation	The government may need to actively participate in some activities involving delivery of services or certain products to the public as a means of earning some income for the government, or ensuring that the standards within the industry in question protect consumer welfare. It achieves this objective through government corporations, which include businesses operated by the government, but working as any other business owned by civilians would operate. Consequently, these corporations have a clear organizational structure, just that the owners of the business are listed as the government.

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