What is the purpose of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice?

Answer all Short-Answer Questions below:
1. Define bureaucracy and indicate why it is essential for the operation of a large government?
2. What is the purpose of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice? Created in 1957
Purpose:
3. What are independent regulatory commissions? Why are they considered independent? Define independent regulatory commissions.
4. Independent executive agencies are parts of the federal bureaucracy that are independent of cabinet departments. How do they differ from independent regulatory commissions?
5. What is implementation?
6. Describe rulemaking?
7. Define and compare the concepts of the “iron triangle” and “issue networks.” Hint: The degree of openness and influence on policy separates these concepts.
8. Administrative adjudication is a quasi-judicial process by which a bureaucratic agency resolves a dispute between the agency and a private citizen. How does this differ from the work of the judicial branch?
9. Identify the ways in which the legislative branch attempts to control the bureaucracy? They are responsible for the creation, alteration, and elimination of agencies and positions.
Government Accountability Office is an example of ??
10. What are whistleblowers?
how do they fit into the issue of executive control over the bureaucracy is that it is a means of limiting executive control of the bureaucracy?
Website Resources:
Bureau of Indian Affairs, http://www.bia.gov/
The Cabinet, http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/cabinet/
Customs and Border Patrol, http://www.cbp.gov/
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, http://www.eeoc.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, http://www.usccr.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov

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