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| Bureaucracy | A large, complex administrative structures that handles the everyday business of an organization |
| Bureaucrat | A person who words for a bureaucratic organization |
| Administration | The officials in the executive branch of a government and their polices and principles |
| Staff agency | An agency which supports the chief executive and other administrators by offering advice and other assistance in the management of the organization |
| Line agency | An agency which performs the tasks from which the organization exists |
| Executive Office of the President | An organization of several agencies staffed by the President’s closest advisors |
| Federal budget | A detailed financial document containing estimates of federal income and spending during the coming fiscal year |
| Fiscal year | The 12-month period used by a government and the business world for its record-keeping, budgeting, revenue collecting, and other financial management purposes |
| Domestic affairs | All matters not directly connected to the realm of foreign affairs |
| Executive departments | Often called the Cabinet departments, they are the traditional units of federal administration |
| Secretary | An official in charge of a department of government |
| Attorney general | the head of the Department of Justice |
| Independent agencies | Additional agencies created by Congress located outside the Cabinet departments |
| Independent executive agencies | Agencies headed by a singles administrator with regional subunits, but lacking Cabinet status |
| Independent regulatory commissions | Independent agencies designed to regulate important aspects of the nation’s economy, largely beyond the reach of presidential control |
| Quasi-legislative | Having to do with powers that are to some extent legislative |
| Quasi-judicial | Having to do with powers that are to some extend judicial |
| Government corporation | Corporations within the executive branch subject to the President’s direction and control, set up by Congress to carry out certain business-like activities |
| Civil service | those civilian employees who perform the administrative work of government |
| Spoils system | The practice of giving offices and other favors of government to political supporters and friends |
| Patronage | The practice of giving jobs to supporters and friends |
| Register | A record or list of names, often kept by an official appointed to do so |
| Bipartisan | Supported by two parties |
