32607 Agenda

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• 3/26/07 Agenda
• Please open your Spiral Notebook to page 106.
  Thank you!
• Title the page Communism vs. Capitalism and put
  your heading in the upper right corner. Thanks!
• Answer the start question
• Start Question
• Which choice do you think is better?
• Everyone has the same amount of money, and there
  are no rich or poor/homeless people
• -or-
• B) People have a chance of getting rich, but they
  could also end up broke and homeless
• Explain your choice

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• The Rest of the Agenda
• Finish World War II Group Posters
• Choose Presenters
• Museum Walk

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• Presenters hang posters around room
• Please open your Spiral Notebooks to page 59.
• Title the page World War II Museum Walk and put
  your heading in the upper right corner.
• Write the title Poster 1, skip 2 lines, Poster
  2, skip 2 lines, etc. All the way to Poster 5.
• Presenters job
• Introduce yourself
• Explain Each Quadrant of poster
• Take questions at the end
• Thank the group for coming

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• Please open your Spiral Notebooks to page 61.
  Thank you!
• Title the page The Beginnings of the Cold War and
  put your heading in the upper right corner.
• Get ready to take lecture notes

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• After the end of World War II, there were only 2
  superpower nations left
• A. The United States
• 1. Capitalist country, had suffered no
  civilian deaths in World War II.
• B. The Soviet Union
• 1. Communist country, had suffered millions of
  civilian deaths in World War II.

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• II. The Marshall Plan
• A. After World War II, the United States gave
  western Europe 13 Billion in aid to help rebuild
  their countries.
• B. The Soviet Union got none of this aid
• C. By this time, The Soviet Union had taken over
  most of Eastern Europe.
• D. Citizens who lived in Soviet Controlled
  countries were not allowed to leave.
• E. Winston Churchill called this the Iron
  Curtain

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Agency Allies

• Agencies often seek alliances with congressional
  committees and interest groups
• Issue networks groups that regularly debate
  government policy on certain issues

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Congressional Oversight

• Congress creates agencies
• Congress authorizes funds for programs
• Congressional appropriations provide funds for
  the agency to spend on its programs
• Congressional investigations

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Bureaucratic Pathologies

• Red tape complex, sometimes conflicting rules
• Conflict agencies work at cross-purposes
• Duplication two or more agencies seem to do the
  same thing
• Imperialism tendency of agencies to grow,
  irrespective of programs benefits and costs
• Waste spending more than is necessary to buy
  some product or service

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Reforming the Bureaucracy

• National Performance Review (NPR) in 1993
  designed to
• 1) Have less centralized management
• 2) More employee initiatives,
• 3) Fewer detailed rules
• 4) More customer satisfaction

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Reforming the Bureaucracy

• Most rules and red tape are due to struggles
  between the president and Congress or to
  agencies efforts to avoid alienating influential
  voters
• Periods of divided government worsen matters,
  especially in implementing policy