Public Administration MCQs 2012

Which movement drove Gore’s Reinventing Government efforts more than any other effort?
A. Re-engineering
B. Downsizing
C. Continuous improvement
D. E-government

The government risks sacrificing control, responsiveness, and sometimes quality when it relies on _________ for program implementation.
A. backward mapping
B. whistle-blowers
C. proxies
D. congressional staff

Which movement began at the state level in the mid-1970s?
A. E-government
B. Continuous improvement
C. Reengineering
D. Downsizing

All of the following are considered implementation problems EXCEPT:
A. fragmentation
B. whistle-blowing
C. inequity
D. lax federal control

“Reinventing government” was a term taken from the best-selling book by ________.
A. Osborne and Gaebler
B. Kettl and Fesler
C. Gore and Frederickson
D. Hammer and Champy

The central elements of bureaucratic accountability are _____ and _______.
A. Congress; the courts
B. the president; fragmentation
C. Congress; the president
D. the Constitution; the law

What is considered to be the basic building block of large administrative enterprises?
A. pluralism
B. organization
C. structure
D. bureaucracy

Of the following are approaches to accountability:
A. legal boundaries
B. political challenges
C. evolving policy problems
D. All of these

The traditional and dominant model of organizational theory is the _________.
A. hierarchical approach
B. pluralist approach
C. government-by-proxy approach
D. humanist approach

The politics-administration dichotomy maintains democratic accountability by _______.
A. allowing politicians to be free to act as they see fit.
B. separating political decision making from administrative policy responsibility
C. shifting from lawmakers to citizens
D. revealing a clear chain of command