Essay #3

[Name of the Writer]

[Name of Instructor]

[Subject]

[Date]

Essay #3

Bureaucracy is a topic of interest to many people, who are whether in government or not or are normal citizens of a country. This area is of mere importance to the wellbeing of a country as it involves the Department of Homeland Security, responsible for securing the country from corrupt and malicious government, its officials and supporters (Niskanen, 2017; West, 2016; Stivers, 2018). The bureaucracy helps in saving the country from lobbying and division at the hands of the enemies from international and national forums (Thielemann, & Stewart Jr, 2016). Therefore tis topic is mere importance for the graduate of political science who perceives the politics of a country from almost every angle.

The topic of Bureaucracy is related to the chapter as it covers all the topics and subheadings related to the bureaucracy. The chapter of bureaucracy includes the hierarchal organization of departments, agencies, and cabinets. It involves all the setting related to the topic of government and subsidies (Andrews et al., 2017). The government is answerable to the commodities who are not committing loyally to the interest of their country. The relationship of this topic to the one covered in the chapter is that the government system is unable to stabilize without bureaucracy and it has become the fourth branch of policies regarding government (Niskanen, 2017). The authority of bureaucracy is not challengeable, because it has the judicial powers of quasi-legislative (Johnson, Reynolds, & Mycoff, 2015).

The sites provided in the chapter are very useful, as further the topics can be explored in the bureaucracy, i.e., transportation security, privacy, terrorism, partnerships of law enforcement agencies, resilience, science and technology, homeland security careers, human trafficking, and custom and immigration enforcement (Evans, 2016; Grissom, Kern, & Rodriguez, 2015) . The articles provided on the site of Project On Government Oversight (POGO) are helpful in this regard that they provide the current scenario related to an ongoing issue in the country and gives an insight to the governmental affairs (Binderkrantz, Christiansen, & Pedersen, 2015; Bach, & Wegrich, 2018).

Works Cited

Andrews, R., Groeneveld, S., Meier, K. J., & Schröter, E. (2016, June). Representative bureaucracy and public service performance: Where, why and how does representativeness work. In the PMRA Public Management Research Conference. Aarhus University.

Bach, T., & Wegrich, K. (Eds.). (2018). The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination. Palgrave Macmillan.

Binderkrantz, A. S., Christiansen, P. M., & Pedersen, H. H. (2015). Interest group access to the bureaucracy, parliament, and the media. Governance, 28(1), 95-112.

Evans, T. (2016). Professional discretion in welfare services: Beyond street-level bureaucracy. Routledge.

Grissom, J. A., Kern, E. C., & Rodriguez, L. A. (2015). The “representative bureaucracy” in education: Educator workforce diversity, policy outputs, and outcomes for disadvantaged students. Educational Researcher, 44(3), 185-192.

Johnson, J. B., Reynolds, H. T., & Mycoff, J. D. (2015). Political science research methods. Cq Press.

Niskanen, J. (2017). Bureaucracy and representative government. Routledge.

Niskanen, J. (2017). Bureaucracy and representative government. Routledge.

Stivers, C. (2018). Democracy, bureaucracy, and the study of administration. Routledge.

Thielemann, G. S., & Stewart Jr, J. J. (2016). A demand-side perspective on the importance of representative bureaucracy. Representative Bureaucracy: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies: Classic Readings and Continuing Controversies, 176.

West, W. F. (2016). Controlling the Bureaucracy: Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice: Institutional Constraints in Theory and Practice. Routledge.