Has the bureaucracy of the US government gotten bigger or smaller since President Washington?  Explain your answer with specific examples from the chapter.

 

 

What elected official is technically the head of the government bureaucracy?

 

What was the last bureaucratic agency to be created?  (This answer is not in your chapter because this office was created by President Bush. Use the Internet to find the answer.)

 

What is the purpose for independent agencies?

 

What was the first independent regulatory agencies (1887)?

 

What is the Freedom of Information Act?

 

Name two government corporations.

 

Explain the evolution from the spoils system to the merit system in the bureaucracy of the government?

 

What is an iron triangle? Explain what it is and include an example of one iron triangle that exists right now.