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Questions:

1. What is bureaucracy?
2. How do the media depict the federal bureaucracy?
3. How has the federal government bureaucracy evolved?
4. What are the four main types of federal agencies?
5. What was the spoils system? How did the Pendleton Act change the rules to prevent politicians from using political appointments for personal gain?
6. How have politicians managed to keep the number of federal employees the same since the 1960s? In what sense has the federal bureaucracy "thickened"?
7. How do government agencies exercise power through rulemaking,implementation, and adjudication?
8. What role does standard operating procedure play in agency accountability?
9. How do agencies and the president influence each other?
10. How do agencies and Congress influence each other?
11. What government agencies have you had to deal with? How much authority do you think they had to decide what to do in your case?
12. What is the value of standard operating procedures? What are the
13. limitations of having bureaucracies follow standard procedures?
14. How can agencies influence policymakers? How does the perspective of bureaucrats working in government agencies tend to differ from the perspective of the president and members of Congress?
15. How do the bureaucracy and the media interact?
16. Why and when do agencies need the media?
17. Why and when do the media need agencies?
18. What impact do media depictions of the bureaucracy have on public opinion and on agencies themselves?