Flight Safety Legislation Brief Overview

This article discussed the flight safety legislation, which required federal government to ensure aviation security by hiring 28,000 staff to screen travelers and baggage at the nation’s airports within one year. The case supported many features of the direct government tool, such as high directness, low automaticity, high degree of coerciveness and high visibility. The political factors impacting it further indicate that the debates and choices of details related to the tool are essentially the debates and choices of control.

Direct Government

The tool embodied by this article is direct government, the nature of which is that government employees deliver goods and provide services. By involving federal employees into the security checking duty, the government provides services directly to the public.

Tool Features

Discussion regarding to the tool features will unfold in the sequence of its directness, automaticity, coerciveness and visibility.

To begin with, direct government, which uses bureaucracy to mobilize resources and to carry out decisions, enjoys a high degree of directn...