647

Administrative Agencies

Scope Note

Special bureaus, institutions, boards and commissions charged with conducting the activities of the government; responsibility (e.g., to chief executive, to executive advisers, to deliberative councils); organization, personnel, and authority of each agency; civil service; bureaucracy and its characteristics; public administration; etc.

History Note

The scope note was revised in 2005.

Broader Term
640 Government Institutions
Related Terms
463 Occupational Specialization
624 Local Officials
630 Territorial Organization
650 Government Activities
671 Legal Norms
Use Fors
Administration (public)
Administrative agencies (federal and state)
Agencies (administrative)
Bureaucracy in a state
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Civil service
Environmental protection agencies (bureaucracy)
Executives (state bureaucracy)
Federal administrative agencies
Government administrative agencies
Ministers (government)
Resource management (government agencies)
State administrative agencies
Veterans Administration
Identifier
647

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