ASSIGNMENT

Assignment

Assignment

Describe and explain the political culture and economic, social, and political developments that shaped U.S. government and public administration.

It is believed by majority of the Americans that government should be charged with the responsibility of providing the individual a good amount of freedom to accomplish their goals and objectives. Many Americans are also of teh opinion that their officeholders are influenced by the financial strength, and are only considerate for their careers while staying away from serving the common people. The government of the country has been shaped by various economic, social and political powers while the public administration is given its form by the American President, Woodrow Wilson. The reformist movement of public service swept the political landscape of America. In teh early years, the public administration was not even considered as a career to be adopted by gentlemen.

Legislative power in the United States at the federal level by the U.S. Congress, who have the right to elect U.S. citizens over 18 years by universal, direct and secret ballot. It consists of two chambers - the Senate and the House of Representatives. Meetings of the Congress were held in the Capitol building, located on a hill in the center of Washington. Congress has an important function of monitoring the activities of government agencies and departments. This monitoring is conducted through investigations on various issues, check spending budget, oversight of the organization and operations of government agencies. Large role in the implementation of this function belongs to the specialized agencies of the Congress, such as the General Accounting Office, the Office of Technology Assessment and the Congressional Budget Office. The President has a central place in the system of higher U.S. Government. He is the head of state and the sole support of the executive power, the head of the armed forces and the supreme head of the federal administrative apparatus. United States tried as accurately as possible to determine the order of substitution of high office, his powers and the nature of relationships with other government agencies.

Describe and discuss the different types of public bureaucrats and their motivations.

Public bureaucracies are the counterparts of the concrete-abstract ideal notion of the state, seen as the main body for the articulation of social relations, or as tissue conjunctive that keeps society together. Most modern bureaucracies formed as part of the process of state-building that occurred in Europe, the United States and Latin America primarily during the nineteenth century, with the exceptions of England and France, in which case this process occurred before. In turn, the state formation can be understood as a component of a broader process of social construction, in which, gradually, other components were also forming: the construction of the nation (understood as feelings of belonging and widely shared within a territory), citizenship, a system relations of production, the market, the structuring of social classes and consolidation of a "covenant" of political domination.

The major types of bureaucrats include:

Administrative Man

The administrative man is a combination of the rational and psychological ...