Transcript Bureaucracies as Implementers

Bureaucracies as Implementers
The job of bureaucracies is:
1. to implement policy made by congress,
president, and judicial pronouncements
2. Manage the routines of government (like
delivering mail, collecting taxes, training
troops)
Implementation includes:
1. Creation of a new agency or assignment of a
new responsibility to an old agency
2. Translation of policy goals into rules of
operation and guidelines
3. Coordinate resources and personnel to
achieve the goals
Problems with Implementation
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Program Design
Lack of Clarity
Lack of Resources
Administrative Routine
Administrators’ Dispositions
Fragmentation
1. Read the section in
the text.
2. Overview of the
problem
3. How does it impact
implementation?
4. Interesting/specific
examples?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Implementation at its finest!
• Targeted states in the deep south that were
not allowing African American voters to
register and vote
• Justice Department given the task
• Dispatched registrars to southern states, some
with US marshals
• Within 7 ½ months 300,000 new AA voters
Presidents try to control the bureaucracy:
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Appoint the right people to head the agency
Issue orders
Alter an agency’s budget
Reorganize an agency
Congress tries to control the bureaucracy
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Influence the appointment of agency heads
Alter an agency’s budget
Hold hearings
Rewrite the legislation or make it more
detailed
Iron Triangles
• Pg 500 graphic
• Relationship between interest group who
wants the policy, the congressional committee
voting on the policy, and the bureaucratic
agencies charged with carrying out the policy
LO 15.5
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