Social Sciences and History / Unit 8 SSH 0734 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Departments, Regulators, Agencies, Corporations
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The idea
Elected officials designed bureaucracies of different types for different functions: cabinet departments, headed by the president's most senior appointees; independent regulatory agencies; independent executive agencies; and government corporations, which serve a public interest and are overseen far more than private firms.
In practice
Privatization brings market forces into government's functions.
Where people slip
Video 0736 places an agency in its type.
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