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| Public agencies and the programs and services they implement and manage. |
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| Employees of public agencies. |
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| Bureaucratic employees earn their jobs based on qualifications and merit. |
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| The process of taking the expressed wishes of government and translating them into action. |
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| Lower-level public agency employees who actually take the actions that represent law or policy. |
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| The process of translating laws into written instructions on what public agencies will or will not do. |
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| The right of an electoral winner to decide who works for public agencies. |
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| The process of giving government jobs to partisan loyalists. |
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| The idea that public agencies should be impartial implementers of democratic decisions. |
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| Systems in which employment and promotion in public agencies are based on qualifications and demonstrated ability, which blends very well with the organizational characteristics of bureaucracy. |
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| A process in which representatives of labor and management meet to negotiate pay and benefits, job responsibilities, and working conditions. |
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| The length of time spent in a position. |
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| Policies designed to help recruit and promote disadvantaged groups. |
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| Representative Bureaucracy |
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| The idea that public agencies reflecting the diversity of the communities they serve will be more effective. |
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| The delivery of public services and programs via the Internet or other digital means. |
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