AP US Government Chapter 14 Terms
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Bureaucracy - ✔✔a hierarchical authority structure that uses task
specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with
impersonality
Patronage - ✔✔system in which jobs and promotions are awarded for
political reasons rather than for merit or competence
Pendleton Civil Service Act - ✔✔Passed in 1883, an act that created a
federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit
rather than patronage
Civil Service - ✔✔A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit
principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service
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, Merit Principle - ✔✔the idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams
and promotion rating to produce administration by people with talent and
skill
Hatch Act - ✔✔a federal law prohibiting government employees from
active participation in partisan politics while on duty or for employees in
sensitive positions at any time
Office of Personnel Management - ✔✔office in charge of hiring for most
agencies of the federal government using elaborate rules in the process
GS (General Schedule) Rating - ✔✔a schedule for federal employees,
ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and
experience
Senior Executive Service - ✔✔an elite cadre of about 9,000 federal
government managers at the top of the civil service system
Independent Regulatory Commission - ✔✔a government agency with
responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest
in some sector of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules
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Bureaucracy - ✔✔a hierarchical authority structure that uses task
specialization, operates on the merit principle, and behaves with
impersonality
Patronage - ✔✔system in which jobs and promotions are awarded for
political reasons rather than for merit or competence
Pendleton Civil Service Act - ✔✔Passed in 1883, an act that created a
federal civil service so that hiring and promotion would be based on merit
rather than patronage
Civil Service - ✔✔A system of hiring and promotion based on the merit
principle and the desire to create a nonpartisan government service
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, Merit Principle - ✔✔the idea that hiring should be based on entrance exams
and promotion rating to produce administration by people with talent and
skill
Hatch Act - ✔✔a federal law prohibiting government employees from
active participation in partisan politics while on duty or for employees in
sensitive positions at any time
Office of Personnel Management - ✔✔office in charge of hiring for most
agencies of the federal government using elaborate rules in the process
GS (General Schedule) Rating - ✔✔a schedule for federal employees,
ranging from GS 1 to GS 18, by which salaries can be keyed to rating and
experience
Senior Executive Service - ✔✔an elite cadre of about 9,000 federal
government managers at the top of the civil service system
Independent Regulatory Commission - ✔✔a government agency with
responsibility for making and enforcing rules to protect the public interest
in some sector of the economy and for judging disputes over these rules
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