American Government / Unit 8 Gov 385 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Four Types
Captions available
The idea
Federal bureaucracy takes four organizational types: cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, independent regulatory agencies, and government corporations.
In practice
Where an organization sits and what it does place it in the grid.
Where people slip
The type predicts the president's leverage over it — the point of the classification.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it · Sources for American Government