Title: What Is the Purpose of an Administrative Agency? | Small Business - Chron.com
Headings: What Is the Purpose of an Administrative Agency?
What Is the Purpose of an Administrative Agency?
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The modern administrative society is based on the concept of professionalism. The people who staff the agency are meant to be those who are specifically trained in the mission of the law or policy it is meant to execute and oversee. In the federal government, Medicaid, for example, has its own administration of government employees expressly hired and trained to deal with the law and policy as it relates to health insurance, poor relief and dealing with hospitals and doctors. Therefore, an agency like this only works if its employees are professional, with expert knowledge on the laws governing health insurance for poor Americans. Continuity
Law does not make any sense without bureaucracy. In general terms, all public administration can be reduced to the systemic “rationalization” of coercion. Without bureaucracy of even the most rudimentary type, law becomes one of two things: It is mere arbitrary violence, or words on paper. The bureaucracy or administration of public life “continues” or “extends” that life even if its leaders disappear. If the president and all his cabinet ministers were to vaporize tomorrow, nothing would change in the short or medium term because the bureaucracy is in charge of administering and maintaining the law, not politicians.