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Aim: How does the bureaucracy exert influence over public policy?

Aim: How does the bureaucracy exert influence over public policy? Do Now: What is an Iron Triangle and why is it called a subgovernment?. Iron Triangles. CONGRESS. INTEREST GROUPS. BUREAUCRACY.

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Aim: How does the bureaucracy exert influence over public policy?

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  1. Aim: How does the bureaucracy exert influence over public policy? • Do Now: What is an Iron Triangle and why is it called a subgovernment?

  2. Iron Triangles CONGRESS INTEREST GROUPS BUREAUCRACY Iron Triangle - three-way alliance among legislators, bureaucrats, and interest groups to make or preserve policies that benefit their respective interests

  3. Iron Triangles

  4. How it works? • Everyone in the triangle has a similar interest • Legislatorsget funding from interest groups and make laws reality with the help of the bureaucracy • Interest groups provide valued information to bureaucrats and money to legislators • Bureau chiefs implement legislator policy and interest group goals.

  5. Why are they “iron”? • Strong – bond can’t be broken by President or Congress • Referred to as “sub governments,” all the real decisions are made among these 3 groups • Might maintain interests that might not be publicly popular… like what?

  6. Example – Why is tobacco legal? House and Senate agricultural subcommittees Friends of Tobacco (tobacco lobby) Department of Agriculture House and Senate representatives, sympathetic to tobacco, receive campaign funds and support from tobacco lobby, and the representatives make sure that tobacco farmers are defended through legislation. DOA agency executes the legislation while relying on the Congressional budget. The interest groups provide the DOA with valuable information to effectively execute laws.

  7. Other Iron Triangle Example

  8. Issue Network • More complicated connection exists • Iron triangle too simple – there are interest groups from opposite sides of an issue who compete • Issue Network – complex group (includes media) that debates an issue and slows policy-making • Policy-making is not as smooth with competing demands from interest groups • President can appoint an agency head who steers policy, but can never smoothly control policy

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