PPA 265 JMU test 1 questions with correct
answers
Give a unique definition of public administration, with unique meaning it is in
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your own words and draws from your understanding of the field. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔--PA is the implementation of policy's that are handed down while | | | | | | | | | | |
also providing key perspectives to elected officials.
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-Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an
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academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants
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for working in the public service
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-interdisciplinary |
-often regarded as including also some responsibility for determining the policies
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and programs of governments. Specifically, it is the planning, organizing,
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directing, coordinating, and controlling of government operations.
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Understand and explain the traditional model of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-o
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Model reforms or new "paradigms" are compared against
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o Draws from efforts in many countries, but US has unique history
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-Didn't start well with articles of confederation; states not communicating with
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each other, didn't want strong centralized gov't
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o is hierarchical (top-down)
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o bureaucratic
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o geared towards certain type of accountability (also top-down)
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o neutral - (not influenced by politics, follows laws put in place)
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,o professional (in correct fields)
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o merit-based
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who's ideas did the traditional model come about - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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started with Pendleton Act, then Jacksonian democracy led to the three lines of
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thinking: Wilson, Weber, Taylor
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Wilson's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--bureaucratic
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dichotomy (strict separation of administration and politics); politicians should be
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responsible for making policy, while the administration would be responsible for
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carrying it out | |
-political matter would be dealt with by politicians; administrative matter by the
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percent public servants, with two spheres of action kept, as far as possible, apart
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Weber's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-bureaucracy;
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ideal form of organization; top-down hierarchical; best form any organization
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would be bureaucracy; six principles
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Weber's 6 principles of Bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-formal hierarchical
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authority, management by rules, division of labor, achievement-based
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advancement, efficient operations, impersonal environment | | | |
Taylor's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-best way to do
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something, to replicate; scientific management; standardizing work and
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controlling extensively and intensively as to provide for the maintenance of all
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these standards
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, Taylor's scientific management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--time and motivation
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studies to decide a standard for working
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-wage-incentive system that was a modification of the piece work method already
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|in existence
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-changing the functional organization
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Issues with the traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--The model of political
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control was inadequate and illogical
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-One-best way of thinking is problematic
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-The theory of bureaucracy is no longer universally seen as proving the technically
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|efficient Weber thought it provided, also tends to be undemocratic
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-There was criticism from the right (here termed the 'public choice critique') of
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the whole idea of bureaucracy as something that took away freedom and was
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insufficient compared to the market | | | |
Categories that aid in defining Public Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Political, Legal, Managerial, Occupational
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Political category of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- exists in political context
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(elected officers) |
-what does government do
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-policy making |
-implementation the public interest | | |
-collect action |
answers
Give a unique definition of public administration, with unique meaning it is in
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your own words and draws from your understanding of the field. - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔--PA is the implementation of policy's that are handed down while | | | | | | | | | | |
also providing key perspectives to elected officials.
| | | | | |
-Public administration is the implementation of government policy and also an
| | | | | | | | | | |
academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants
| | | | | | | | | |
for working in the public service
| | | | |
-interdisciplinary |
-often regarded as including also some responsibility for determining the policies
| | | | | | | | | | |
and programs of governments. Specifically, it is the planning, organizing,
| | | | | | | | | |
directing, coordinating, and controlling of government operations.
| | | | | |
Understand and explain the traditional model of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-o
| | | | | | | | | | |
Model reforms or new "paradigms" are compared against
| | | | | | |
o Draws from efforts in many countries, but US has unique history
| | | | | | | | | | |
-Didn't start well with articles of confederation; states not communicating with
| | | | | | | | | | |
each other, didn't want strong centralized gov't
| | | | | |
o is hierarchical (top-down)
| | |
o bureaucratic
|
o geared towards certain type of accountability (also top-down)
| | | | | | | |
o neutral - (not influenced by politics, follows laws put in place)
| | | | | | | | | | |
,o professional (in correct fields)
| | | |
o merit-based
|
who's ideas did the traditional model come about - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | | |
started with Pendleton Act, then Jacksonian democracy led to the three lines of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
thinking: Wilson, Weber, Taylor
| | |
Wilson's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--bureaucratic
| | | | | | | |
dichotomy (strict separation of administration and politics); politicians should be
| | | | | | | | | |
responsible for making policy, while the administration would be responsible for
| | | | | | | | | | |
carrying it out | |
-political matter would be dealt with by politicians; administrative matter by the
| | | | | | | | | | | |
percent public servants, with two spheres of action kept, as far as possible, apart
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Weber's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-bureaucracy;
| | | | | | | |
ideal form of organization; top-down hierarchical; best form any organization
| | | | | | | | | |
would be bureaucracy; six principles
| | | |
Weber's 6 principles of Bureaucracy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-formal hierarchical
| | | | | | | | |
authority, management by rules, division of labor, achievement-based
| | | | | | | |
advancement, efficient operations, impersonal environment | | | |
Taylor's contribution to traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-best way to do
| | | | | | | | | | |
something, to replicate; scientific management; standardizing work and
| | | | | | | |
controlling extensively and intensively as to provide for the maintenance of all
| | | | | | | | | | | |
these standards
|
, Taylor's scientific management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--time and motivation
| | | | | | | |
studies to decide a standard for working
| | | | | |
-wage-incentive system that was a modification of the piece work method already
| | | | | | | | | | |
|in existence
|
-changing the functional organization
| | |
Issues with the traditional model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--The model of political
| | | | | | | | | | |
control was inadequate and illogical
| | | |
-One-best way of thinking is problematic
| | | | |
-The theory of bureaucracy is no longer universally seen as proving the technically
| | | | | | | | | | | |
|efficient Weber thought it provided, also tends to be undemocratic
| | | | | | | | |
-There was criticism from the right (here termed the 'public choice critique') of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
the whole idea of bureaucracy as something that took away freedom and was
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
insufficient compared to the market | | | |
Categories that aid in defining Public Administration - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
Political, Legal, Managerial, Occupational
| | |
Political category of PA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- exists in political context
| | | | | | | | | | |
(elected officers) |
-what does government do
| | |
-policy making |
-implementation the public interest | | |
-collect action |
