GOV 120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Merit System, Spoils System, Emancipation Proclamation
Jack Warner
Government 120 - American Government
Textbook
Fall 2017
GE
● Bureaucracy
• four types of federal bureaucracy and difference between them- executive branch department
(defense, secretary, etc.), independent agencies- have narrow set of functions (Nasa,
environmental protections, etc.), independent - have special legal
status- can create rules and also punish those who violate the rules (FCC), government
corporations that focus like business
• spoils system and patronage
• merit system
• 5 pathologies- **clientelism, **incrimentalism, arbetrarieanist, imperialism
• understand where myth of bureaucratic incompetence comes from-
Courts
• quiz
• how judges are appointed and confirmed- president, senate and have terms that last for life
• types of federal courts
Myths of Guaranteed Political/Social Equality?
• empirical vs. normative
• some situations where discrimination is necessary
• military gender
• police/emergency services and gender
• nannying and gender
• teachers and sexuality
• etc
• government’s role in civil rights issues has evolved to determine what type of discrimination
is bad, what to what extend
Equality
• equality of opportunity
equality of outcome Antebellum History
