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AP Government Unit 7 ScheduleBureaucracy (Chapter 15) and Policymaking (Chapters 17,18,19,20)“We have no discipline in this bureaucracy. We never fire anybody. We never reprimand anybody. We never demote anybody. We always promote the {expletive deleted} that kick us in the {expletive}...” - Richard Nixon*Textbook readings always REQUIRE notetaking*Overriding Questions1. How has the bureaucracy become the fourth branch of policymaking?2. How has the role of the bureaucracy changed over time?3. How does the President influence the bureaucracy? 4. How does creating policy differ from implementing policy?Name: ___________________ Hour: ___ AP European History – Mr. W.B. Brooks#Assignment TitleDue DatePoints PossibleU7HW1Read Chapter 15 and take notes (complete by end of 3rd day of Unit)U7HW2Bureaucracy Case Study – How Are We Regulated?50U7HW3Budget Making Process100U7HW4Five Federal Agencies150U7HW5Test Corrections (Only required for those that scored BELOW 80% on Unit Summative)U7CL1Jigsaw Activity for Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20150U7CL2In Class FRQ50U7CL3Reading Quiz (Only Over Textbook Chapters)U7CL4Unit Summative / Exam (MC, FRQ, DBQ – Possible Formats)RJUnit Reading Journal (Completed By 3rd Day of Unit) RGReading Groups (Done In Class On Day Before Unit Exam)The Policy Making Institutions (Traditional Policy Making Institutions)1. Congress2. Judiciary3. President4. Bureaucracy*Purposely made to be an excruciatingly slow process*Unit 7 - Bureaucracy and Policy MakingReadings: Edwards, George C.,et all. Government in America: Chapters 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 Relevant Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Time and wire service articlesAreas of Study:Structure and Power of CongressPolitical Parties and CongressHow a Bill Becomes a LawMembership DemographicsJob of a Member of CongressEvaluations of CongressMaking Public, Economic, Fiscal, Monetary Policy & Social PolicyForeign PolicyAssignments:See Schedule for Unit (Above)After studying this Unit, students should be able to:? Understand why many things that Americans think about bureaucracy are myths.? Describe the ways in which the permanent bureaucracy is broadly representative of the American people.? Trace the development of the American bureaucracy from the “spoils system” to the “merit system.”? Identify and describe several theories of the functions and organization of bureaucracies.? Distinguish among the four basic types of federal agencies: cabinet departments, regulatory agencies, government corporations, and independent executive agencies.? Explain why implementation of policy can break down.? Determine how presidents try to control the bureaucracy and how Congress tries to control the bureaucracy.? Investigate the importance of iron triangles and issue networks.? Explain the relationship between democratic theory and the operations of bureaucracies.? Describe the interrelationship of electoral politics and the economy in the U.S.? Identify the tools that are used by government in an attempt to control the economy.? Summarize the key role of the Federal Reserve System in setting U.S. monetary policy.? Contrast the views of liberals and conservatives with respect to government involvement in the economy.? Describe the ways in which government both benefits and regulates areas of the economy such as business, labor, and agriculture.? Understand the relationship between democracy, the scope of government, and economic policy in America.? Explain the term, social welfare policy.? Summarize how liberals and conservatives disagree about the conduct and impact of public assistance programs.? Distinguish the three major types of taxation: progressive, regressive, and proportional. Show how each affects the public class structure in different ways.? Indicate the role that entitlements play in the U.S. budgetary system.? Identify the major American social welfare programs and the groups that benefit from them.? Explain the changing opinions and suspicions surrounding immigration and immigration policy.? Identify government insurance programs in the United States and determine who benefits from these programs.? Determine how issues of pollution affect political choices through their impact on business, economic growth, and jobs.? Summarize legislative enactments in the United States that establish federal environmental policy.? Ascertain the impact of technological issues on the scope of government.From Unit VII – Bureaucracy &Policymaking (Chapter 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20).Name: ___________________________________ Hour: ______AP Government – W.B. BrooksU7CL2 – Jigsaw Activity for Policymaking (Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20)Chapter 17 – EconomicChapter 18 – Social WelfareChapter 19 – Healthcare and the EnvironmentChapter 20 – National SecurityGroups will be assigned at random, depending on the lowest individual student grade in that group.The group with the lowest grade (student) will have first selection, followed by the next lowest grade.Your Group is Responsible for Chapter: _______ Title of Chapter: _____________________________Directions: Your group is responsible for performing the following:By using diplomacy and democratic ideals select a:Team Leader:_____________________________________ (Team Leader’s grade is based upon one of the two criteria’s: team’s average or class average) (The lowest grade a team leader can earn is a 60%) (All team leaders will earn a HW Pass)Team Members: _____________, ____________. ____________,______________ (Member’s grade is based upon: personal quiz score, team leader’s grade, or class average) (The lowest grade a team member can earn is an 80%)A Study Guide for your classmates (All AP Classes) that they can use to study for the AP ExamThis study guide will need to be reproducible, so that Mr. Brooks can make copies.To include: key words, concepts, ideas, policy, events, etc. from your chapter.Study guide needs to be one full page (front sided only)Study guide must be emailed to Mr. BrooksA 20 question multiple choice quiz from your chapter (to simulate the AP Exam)You will be given a Test Question Bank, you are to select 20 that you find that are most relevant to your chapter.Quiz must be emailed to Mr. BrooksOne member will be responsible as the spokesperson and “round-robin” to the other groups to present your work. In case any of your classmates have questions about your study guide. This will be your team leader!Your group will then take an “open note study guide” test over the four chapters.Grading Rubric For U7CL2TaskPointsSelection of Members 20Study Guide Created30Sample Quiz Created30Round-Robin Completed30Quiz40Total150U7HW2How Regulated Are We??????????Is everyday life itself the subject of bureaucratic regulation? Read the following scenario to analyze, discuss, and evaluate bureaucratic regulation in everyday life.Senator Lal lives in the city of Chicago with her husband and three children. Both at home and at work, federal regulations affects her life. She is awakened at 5:30am by her clock radio, set to an eighties radio station licensed to operate by the Federal Communication Commission (FEC). For breakfast, she has cereal, which has to pass inspection by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as has the lunch her husband packs for her. The processed meat (mmmmm- Upton Sinclair) in her sandwich is packed under the supervision of the Food Safety and Quality Service of the US Dep’t of Agriculture. Senator Lal takes the train to work, buying a quick cup of Starbucks coffee before the journey. The caffeine in her coffee, the FDA has warned, has caused birth defects in laboratory animals, and there is discussion in Washington about regulating it. Paying her train fare (regulated by the highly taxing Illinois state government), she hops aboard and arrives shortly at work, a government building that employs a plethora of civilian and federal employees, no to mention Ms. Lal’s most recent acquisition, an amanuensis. The building is subject to a series of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Organization) regulations (i.e. no asbestos, proper ventilation etc).At home Senator Lal’s husband, Mr. L, is preparing breakfast for their little skippies. The price of milk he serves is affected by the dairy price supports regulated by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. As the skippies frolic and gallivant, he takes note of the toys they use, wanting to avoid any that could be dangerous. A Washington agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, also takes note of the children’s toys, regulating their manufacture, sale and recall. The Consumer Product Safety Commission also regulates the lawn mower, the appliances, the microwave oven, and numerous other devices around the house. Setting out for the grocery store and the bank, Mr. L encounters yet more government regulations. The car has seat belts mandated by the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration and the Dep’t of Transportation certifies its gas mileage. It happens that the car’s pollution-control devices are now in need of service, because they didn’t meet the requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency. The bank at which Mr. L deposits Senator Lal’s gargantuan paycheck is among the MOST heavily regulated by the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, and her account is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC). Arriving home from an arduous day at work, Senator Lal sits down to have a glass of wine before dinner. It was made in a wine field carefully supervised by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and when it was sold, federal AND state taxes were collected. After dinner (almost all the food served has been transported by the regulated trucking industry), the children are sent to bed. An hour or so of television, broadcast, on regulated airwaves, is followed by bedtime for the Lals. A switch will turn off the electric lights, whose rates are regulated by the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As Senator Lal turns off the light she is thankful that she doesn’t live in California, New York or Ohio and the rolling blackouts. Guess the California Commerce Commission will need to do some overhauling.How Should We Regulate??YOU ARE THE POLICYMAKER. What do you do?????Almost every regulatory policy was created to achieve some desirable social goal. When more than 10,000 people are killed annually in industrial accidents, who would disagree with the goal of a safer work place? Who would dissent from greater highway safety, when more than 50,000 die each year in automobile accidents? Who would disagree with policies to promote equality in hiring, when the history of opportunities for women and minorities is one of discrimination? Who would disagree with policies to reduce industrial pollution, when pollution threatens health and lives? However, there may be more than one way to achieve these-- and many other-- desirable social goals. Charles L. Schultze, chair of President Carter’s Council of Economic Advisors, is-- like Murray L. Weidenbaum, who held the same position under Reagan-- a critic of the current state of federal regulation. Schultze reviewed the regulatory activities of the EPA and OSHA. Neither agency’s policies, he concluded had worked very well. He described the existing system as command-and-control policy: The government tells business how to reach certain goals, checks that these commands are followed and punishes offenders. Schultze advocates an incentive system. He argues that instead of telling construction businesses how their ladders must be constructed, measuring the ladders, and charging a small fine for violators, it would be more efficient and effective to levy a high tax on firms with excessive worker injuries. Instead of trying to develop standards for 62,000 pollution sources, as the EPA does now, it would be easier and more effective to levy a high tax on those who cause pollution. The government could even provide incentives in the form of rewards for such socially valuable behavior as developing technology o reduce pollution. Incentives, Schultze argues, use market like strategies to regulate industry. They are, he claims, more effective and efficient than command-and-control regulation.Not everyone is as keen on the use on incentives as Schultze. Defenders of the command-and-control system of regulation compare the present system to preventive medicine; it is designed to minimize pollution or workplace accidents before they become too severe. Defenders of the system argue, too, that penalties for excessive pollution or excessive workplace accidents would be imposed only after substantial damage had been done. They also add that if taxes on pollution or unsafe work environments were merely externalized (that is, passed along to the consumer as higher prices), they would not be much of a deterrent. Moreover, it would take a large bureaucracy to monitor carefully the level of pollution discharged, and it would require a complex calculation to determine the level of tax necessary to encourage business not to pollute. The issue of the manner of regulation is a complex one. What would you do???For this assignment, you can only post it on the blog site for credit! Mininmum of 750 words!Name:__________________________________ Hour: ______ AP Government – W.B. Brooks U7HW3: The Budget Making Process- How Does the Gov’t Spend Our Money?-Inquiring Minds Want to Know-Budget 101- Federal Budget Making ProcessDirections- Log onto- HYPERLINK ""wp-srv/politics/interactives/budget101/ and analyze the bill making process. 1). Click on the overall budget tab. Define: revenues and outlays. What is the difference between surplus and deficit? What do the charts tell us about revenues and outlays?2). Click on the spending tab. What is the difference between mandatory and discretionary spending? Check out the pie chart—which one constitutes a larger portion of the federal budget?3). Click on spending by category tab. Tell me one interesting fact you learned. Why is it interesting?4). Click on the debt and deficit tab. What do you notice about the CBO projected Federal Deficit/Surplus ? What is the CBO?Name: _________________________ Hour: ___ AP Gov’t & Politics – W.B. BrooksU7HW4: What In The World Does Our Bureaucracy Do???Bureaucracy Projects (unnecessary red-tape or a vital staple to our democracy)Directions: You will use the internet to research about any FIVE Federal agencies or commissionsGo to Hover over the link to “our Government” andd then select “Federal Agencies and Commissions.” Then select the “USAgov” link.Finally, select any FIVE agencies or commissions.If you did these steps corectly, the you should be at the site below:. For each agency or commission find the following:a. History of the Agency/Commission*When was it created?*How was it created?*Which branch of the government has authority over this agency/commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)b. Mission of Agency/Commission*What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?*What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?c. What recent action has this agency/commission taken?*Check out the recent news/press release section of this website forthis informationd. Is this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical.If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!!Use the next page as a template (Make copies if you need them!!!!!!Name: ____________________________ Hour: ____ AP Government – W.B. BrooksName of Agency or Commission: _________________________________________ History of the Agency/Commissiona. When was it created?b. How was it created?c. Which branch of the government has authority over this agency or commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)ABCMission of Agency/Commissiona. What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?b. What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?ABWhat recent action has this agency/commission taken?Check out the recent news/press release section of this website for this informationIs this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical. If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!!Name: ____________________________ Hour: ____ AP Government – W.B. BrooksName of Agency or Commission: _________________________________________ History of the Agency/Commissiona. When was it created?b. How was it created?c. Which branch of the government has authority over this agency or commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)ABCMission of Agency/Commissiona. What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?b. What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?ABWhat recent action has this agency/commission taken?Check out the recent news/press release section of this website for this informationIs this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical. If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!!Name: ____________________________ Hour: ____ AP Government – W.B. BrooksName of Agency or Commission: _________________________________________ History of the Agency/Commissiona. When was it created?b. How was it created?c. Which branch of the government has authority over this agency or commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)ABCMission of Agency/Commissiona. What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?b. What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?ABWhat recent action has this agency/commission taken?Check out the recent news/press release section of this website for this informationIs this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical. If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!!Name: ____________________________ Hour: ____ AP Government – W.B. BrooksName of Agency or Commission: _________________________________________ History of the Agency/Commissiona. When was it created?b. How was it created?c. Which branch of the government has authority over this agency or commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)ABCMission of Agency/Commissiona. What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?b. What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?ABWhat recent action has this agency/commission taken?Check out the recent news/press release section of this website for this informationIs this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical. If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!!Name: ____________________________ Hour: ____ AP Government – W.B. BrooksName of Agency or Commission: _________________________________________ History of the Agency/Commissiona. When was it created?b. How was it created?c. Which branch of the government has authority over this agency or commission? (Executive, Legislative, or Judicial?)ABCMission of Agency/Commissiona. What is the current purpose of the Agency/Commission?b. What is the jurisdiction of the Agency/Commission?ABWhat recent action has this agency/commission taken?Check out the recent news/press release section of this website for this informationIs this agency an example of unnecessary bureaucratic red tape or is it a necessary staple for our democracy? Why. Be specific and analytical. If this portion is not complete your grade will be reduced!!! ................
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