The Executive Bureaucracy
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What is the function of the executive branch?
-Execute laws passed by Congress
What is a Bureaucracy?
• A hierarchal arranged organization that carries tasks in an compartmentalized fashion. • Carry out laws under the President
How does Bureaucracy effect all citizen daily lives?
-Departments: –>Mail services –> Military (department of defense) –> Homeland Security –> FDA are some organization that influence our daily lives
Why has Bureaucracy grown to be the size it is today?
-As society grew, new tasked emerged that required federal government to expand bureaucracy
What are the Era in which caused Bureaucracy to expand?
• Progressive Era (1900-1920) • New Deal Era ( 1932-1945) • Great Society Era (1964-1980)
What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Progressive Era?
• Government first began experience situations never encountered before • Urbanization, with the influx of people to the city caused condition to arise for government to create bureaucracies. • ex) Child Labor Laws • ex) WW 1 expanded department of Defense
What is the New Deal Era?
• FDR proposed plan to eliminate the Great Depression
What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the New Deal Era?
• Expansion of Bureaucracy was needed to fill in the tasks of the New Deal • ex) Agriculture administration • ex) Social Welfare programs
What expansion of Bureaucracy occurred in the Great Society Era?
• ex) Creation of New Environmental protection - ex) Increased Civil Rights call for Justice Department
What is the Great Society Era?
-social reforms of poverty and racial injustice