Government Essay please make sure to tie your essay to the summary
Summarize a news event involving the US government taken from a reputable source such as CNN, Fox, BBC, etc.
i.Summaries must be at least 100 words in length
b. Analyze the event’s tie to your text
.i. Each analysis should clearly tie your event to material from the textbook.
ii. Each analysis should be at least 250 words in length
c. Predict the effects of their event
i. Effects are a subjective analysis in which students will use prior knowledge of different cause and effect relationships within the structure of US government policy to predict an outcome of their chosen event
ii. Predictions should be at least 50 words in length
Please make sure to tie the essay to the summary below:
Bureaucracy is a method of
organizing people and work, based on the principles of hierarchical authority,
job specialization, and formalized rules. As a form of organization,
bureaucracy is the most efficient means of getting people to work together on
tasks of great magnitude and complexity. It is also a form of organization that
is prone to waste and rigidly, which is why efforts are always being made to
reform it. The United States could not be government without a large
bureaucracy. The day-to-day work if the federal government, from mail delivery
to provision of social security to international diplomacy, is done by Federal agencies.
Federal employees work in roughly for hundred major agencies, including cabinet
departments, independent agencies, regulatory agencies, government agencies,
and presidential commissions. Yet the bureaucracy is more than simply an
administrative giant. Administrators have discretion when making policy
decisions. In the process of implementing policy the make important policy and
political choices. Administrative agencies operate within budgets established
by the president and congress, and they participate in the budgetary process. The
process begins with the president’s budget instructions, conveyed through OMB,
to the agencies. They then develop their budgets, which are consolidated and
sent by the president to congress where the house and senate budget and appropriations
committees do the bulk of the work, including holding hearings involving agency
heads. Throughout, Congress, the president, and the agencies seek to promote
their respective budgetary goals. Once the annual budget has been passed by the
House and Senate and signed by the president, it takes effect on October 1, the
starting date of the federal government’s fiscal year. Administrators are
actively engaged in politics and policymaking. The fragmentation of power and
the pluralism of the American system result in a contentious policy process,
which leads government agencies to complete for power and resources.
Accordingly, civil servants tend to have an agency point of view: They seek to
advance their agencies, civil servants rely on their policy expertise, the
backing of their clientele groups and the support of the president and Congress.
Administrators are not elected by the people they serve, yet they will wield substantial
independent power. Because of the bureaucracy’s accountability is a central
issue. The major checks on the bureaucracy occur through the president,
congress, and the courts. The president has some power to recognize the
bureaucracy and the authority to appoint the political head of each agency. The
president also has management tools that can be used to limit administrator’s discretion.
Congress has influence on bureaucratic agencies through its authorization and
funding powers and through various devices that can increase administrator’s
accountability. The judiciary’s role in ensuring the bureaucracy’s accountability
is smaller than that of the elected branches, but the courts gave the authority
to force agencies to act in accordance with legislative intent, established procedures,
and constitutionally guaranteed rights. Internal checks on the bureaucrats the
Senior Executive Service, administrative law judges, whistle blowing and
demographics= representativeness are also mechanisms for holding the bureaucracy
accountable.