PPA 265 Test 1 Questions With Correct Answers

PPA 265 Test 1 Questions With Correct
Answers

Traditional Model of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Model that reforms or new
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"paradigms" are compared against.
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-Draws from efforts in many countries, but US has a unique history.
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-when people took PA seriously
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Spoils System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--what we had prior to the Traditional PA
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model
-positions granted to those w/ connections to the newly appointed leader
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Problems with the Spoils System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--opens the door to
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corruption and lack of stability | | | |




-people will LITERALLY kill for their spoils (RIP Garfield)
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What does "PA is interdisciplinary" mean? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Skills drawn
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from a range of disciplines
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-Academically has a hazy past, convoluted present, and an unknown future
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-Does not easily into any one category
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Key issues of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Politics / administration dichotomy
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-Accountability

,-Evolution & the concept of governance
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-Boundaryless issues |




Contracting - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Nonproits & private organizaions delivering
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public goods and services
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Use of networks = ___ - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-vertical to horizontal structures
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Categories that aid in defining PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Political (Exists in a
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political context)
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-Legal (Rises from law and is bound by law)
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-Managerial (It is about getting the public's business done, implementation)
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-Occupational (It is a job) | | | |




Political elements of Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--What government
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does
-Indirect and direct| | |




-Phase of Policymaking
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-Implementing the public interest | | |




-Collective action |




Collective action - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Public goods
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, Implementing the public interest - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Civic engagement,
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responsive government |




Indirect and direct - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-County board of social services,
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funding of NP service providers, contracting with private sector
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What government does (examples) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Defense, DMV
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Phase of Policymaking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Goes beyond just implementation
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Legal elements of Admin. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Law in action
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-Regulation (Designed to guide/modify behavior)
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-Coercive (Taxing, imminent domain)
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Managerial elements of Admin. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Executive function of
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government (President = CEO) | | |




-Management Specialty (Day-to-day running of organizations)
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-Red tape laden (Slow to act/respond -or- institutional safeguard)
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-Art & science (Management and leadership)
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Occupational of Admin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Category/profession (What one
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does)
-Idealism in action ("Noble" undertaking)
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-Academic field (Knowledge of how to "run a constitution")
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