 | Chapter Objectives
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Having read the chapter, students should be able to:
- Discuss the changes that have occurred to the federal bureaucracy over time.
- Describe the nature of a bureaucracy, as well as the differences between a private and public bureaucracy.
- Understand the difference between political appointees and career civil servants.
- Specify the roles played by the bureaucracy and explain how it is given the power to perform these roles.
- Identify the seven major bureaucratic structures in the federal government.
- Identify the sources of an administrative agency's power.
- Describe the tools that the executive, legislative, and judicial branches have available to them to check bureaucratic power.
- Understand the effect of citizens acting as consumers of government policies rather than owners of the government itself.
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