Bureaucracy Free Response Help

If you need help on the Bureaucracy FRQ, check out the Rubric below:

ALSO: Go to the third page of the Bureaucracy notes I printed out for you a couple of days ago. The section on "Influences on Bureaucratic Behavior" and "Controlling the Bureaucracy" has everything you need to answer the question....Good luck! P.S Skip tonight's judiciary reading on Subato. You can start those pages tomorrow night....

Bureaucracy Free Response Rubric:

PART A: 3 Points - One point each will be given for identifying three of the following:

¨ Recruitment and retention

¨ Personal attributes of bureaucrats

¨ Legal constraints

¨ Organizational restraints

¨ Presidential influence

¨ Congressional influence

¨ Interest Groups

¨ Media

¨ Courts

2 Points – One point each will be given for identifying two of the above.

1 Point – One point will be given for identifying one of the above.

PART B: 3 Points – One point each will be given for writing one developed example within each of three of the above categories. Possible answers include:

¨ Recruitment and retention: “good ‘ol boys” network, hard to fire a civil servant, loyalty to agency

¨ Personal attributes: more liberal than general public, activist agencies more liberal than traditional, i.e. FTC, EPA, SEC v Justice, Defense, Treasury

¨ Legal constraints: Hatch Act, Freedom of Information Act, Affirmative Action

¨ Organizational restraints: size, red tape, lack of incentives

¨ Presidential influence: appointment of top-level bureaucrats, firing power, budgets

¨ Congressional influence: funding, confirmation, appropriations, sunset laws

¨ Interest Groups: iron triangles, lobbying, client groups

¨ Media: scrutiny, watchdog role, “whistle blowers”

¨ Courts: injunctions, writs of mandamus

2 Points – One point each for developing two of the above examples within two of the above categories.

1 Point – One point for developing one of the above examples within one of the above categories.

PART C: 2 Points – Establish a position (efficient or inefficient) and support it with evidence (a concrete example)

1 Point – Establish a position