Bureaucracy

What is a bureaucracy?

The complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles of organization employed by all large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnel 

The primary task of bureaucracy, whether in government or the private sector, is ________ of the organization’s objectives, as determined by bosses.

the implementation and administration

By implementing the laws and policies passed by elected officials, bureaucrats can be seen as

  agents of Congress and the presidency. 

Which term defines congressional efforts to exercise control over the activities of bureaucratic agencies in the executive branch through hearings, investigations, and other techniques?

  oversight 

An agency that fails to actively monitor the businesses it regulates and instead waits for private citizens or interest groups to raise questions about the actions of the businesses can be said to use ________ oversight.

  fire-alarm