TEXAS BUREAUCRACY

Max Weber - Ideal type

    Established offices and duties

    Authority of office is limited by rules

    Qualifications for office essential

    Strict hierarchy of authority and decision making

    Separation between public & private roles

    Bureaucrats are seen as trained experts

    Office management based on rules, applied impersonally

    Office holding is a vocation (career)

    Bureaucracy is neutral; implements public policy

How does the Texas bureaucracy compare to the ideal-type?

    Bureaucrats active in policymaking

    "Iron Triangle"

Accountability and Responsibility

    Texas Constitution

        Depoliticize the bureaucracy

        Elected officials

        Appointed boards

    Governor's control?

    Legislative control?

        Sunset Advisory Commission

    Interest groups and the Bureaucracy?

Texas Administration

    Three types

        Elected single executives = plural executive

        Appointed executive officials

        Boards and Commissions

    1.    Plural executive

        Elected

        4 year terms

        Attorney General

        Comptroller of Public Accounts

        Commissioner of the General Land Office

        Commissioner of Agriculture

        Lt. Governor

    2.    Appointed Executives

        Appointed by Governor

        Confirmed by the Senate

        Secretary of State - identified in Constitution

        Adjutant General

        Commissioner of Health and Human Services

        Insurance Commissioner

    3.    Boards and Commissions

        220

        Elected

            Railroad Commission

            State Board of Education

Ex officio

Elected public officials are members

                Legislative Redistricting Board

        Appointed boards and commissions

            Members appointed by governor

            Serve six-year terms

                Texas National Resource Conservation Commission

Who is responsible for the execution of public policy in Texas?