PPA 265 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Public Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the implementation of public
policy as well as the academic study that prepares civil servants to work in
government
Traditional Model of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- An administration under the
control of political leadership.
- A hierarchical model of bureaucracy, staffed by permanent, neutral, and
anonymous officials.
- Not contributing to policy but merely administering those policies.
What is meant by the idea of balancing democracy and bureaucracy? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-- Bureaucracy breeds 'time-serves' rather than innovators
- Did not make sense for a democracy to have a distinct elite acting secretively (PA
being anonymous)
- Bureaucracy took away freedom and was inefficient compared to the market
Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-System of governance in which a national,
overarching government shares power with subnational or state governments
(intergovernmental relations represent federalism in action)
, Dual Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A system of government in which both
the states and the national government remain supreme within their own
spheres, each responsible for some policies.
Cooperative Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Notion that the national, state,
and local governments are cooperating, interacting agents, working jointly to
solve common problems
Creative Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Developed during President Lyndon
Johnson's administration, it was characterized by the Great Society programs,
which placed a major responsibility on federally funded programs.
New Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-System in which the national
government restores greater authority back to the states, while still maintaining
significant levels of federal funding
Unitary Government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A centralized government in which
all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
Advantages:
- National direction is clear; policies can be made by a single government without
the need for negotiation or conflict with subnational states
- No confusion for accountability
Confederation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An organization that consists of a number
of parties or groups united in an alliance or league. Power rests in the states.
Correct Answers
Public Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the implementation of public
policy as well as the academic study that prepares civil servants to work in
government
Traditional Model of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- An administration under the
control of political leadership.
- A hierarchical model of bureaucracy, staffed by permanent, neutral, and
anonymous officials.
- Not contributing to policy but merely administering those policies.
What is meant by the idea of balancing democracy and bureaucracy? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔-- Bureaucracy breeds 'time-serves' rather than innovators
- Did not make sense for a democracy to have a distinct elite acting secretively (PA
being anonymous)
- Bureaucracy took away freedom and was inefficient compared to the market
Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-System of governance in which a national,
overarching government shares power with subnational or state governments
(intergovernmental relations represent federalism in action)
, Dual Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A system of government in which both
the states and the national government remain supreme within their own
spheres, each responsible for some policies.
Cooperative Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Notion that the national, state,
and local governments are cooperating, interacting agents, working jointly to
solve common problems
Creative Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Developed during President Lyndon
Johnson's administration, it was characterized by the Great Society programs,
which placed a major responsibility on federally funded programs.
New Federalism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-System in which the national
government restores greater authority back to the states, while still maintaining
significant levels of federal funding
Unitary Government - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A centralized government in which
all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
Advantages:
- National direction is clear; policies can be made by a single government without
the need for negotiation or conflict with subnational states
- No confusion for accountability
Confederation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-An organization that consists of a number
of parties or groups united in an alliance or league. Power rests in the states.
