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Chapter 8 Cornell Notes Lined Template
Chapter 8 Cornell Notes Lined Template
Redistributing power,
responsibility, and
funding from the
national government to
the states for many of the
programs shared by the
two levels of
government.
The country was once an independent nation who needed
no government to a country that depends on the
government. It all happened due to pseudo laissez-faire.
Then WW2 caused the expansion of the government.
Much later when Regan became president, changed the
government in a strange way.
reinventing or
reengineering
government: A national
and state movement in
the 1990s to improve
government
performance; sometimes
called “reengineering”.
The Bureaucratic structure is more or less a system used
to organize people. But within the system, there are
certain charcteristics about it that form it depedning on
the type of structure it is, like having authority be in a
system of ranking or having indivduals perform certain
tasks in a traditional bureaucratic structure. A modern
bureaucratic structure mostly follows how European
organizations acted.
Cornell Notes
Lecture, reading/chapter/novel/article Name: _______Arturo Montemayor_________________________
during class, power point, movies (if need
to collect info.) Class: ____Government_____ Period: __9/10A__
Topic:_The Administrative Date: _03/16/2023________________________
State_
Essential Question: Are the current systems in place adequate to assure the public interest is
served?
reorganizes, or
eliminates them.
In the adminstrative state, the governor has power over
the leglsative. However, the government is limited to
most things.
Sunshine Law: A law
that provides for public
access to the records of
administrative agencies.
The legislative can oversee the bureaucracy with two
main tools, which are the legislative oversight and the
Texas Sunset Act.
whistle-blower:
Someone who “blows
the whistle,” that is,
informs on a government
official who is guilty of
misdeeds or malpractice.
The public can take control over the bureaucracy with
elective accountability, open records and meetings, and
whistle-blower protection.