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Goverment
Title: Goverment
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 276 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Goverment
THE RISE OF THE BUREAUCRATIC STATE
The bureaucracy has been constantly growing since its beginning. At the end of the Federalist period, only 3,000 civilian officials were appointed; then in 1925 about half a million were employees in the bureaucracy. However, the size of the bureaucracy is completely insignificant. What matters is the amount of power that can be exercised by the members of the bureaucratic agencies.
The author, James Q. Wilson, provides an example that in 1971, …showed first 75 words of 276 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 276 total…the bureaucratic clentelism becomes self-perpetuating in the absence of some crisis or scandal. In addition, the separation of powers makes it difficult to permit the enactment of a new program or the creation of a new agency.
After reading this article, I was surprised that some agencies associated with agriculture control the flow of billions of dollars in expenditures and loans. Furthermore, local committees of farmers, private farm organizations dominate policy making in some areas.
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