Public Administration MCQs 2012

Woodrow Wilson’s view on _______has created a lasting scholarly debate.
A. organizational theory
B. the difference between public and private management
C. policy execution and policy formation
D. the neutrality of public administration

American citizens began to demand far more of government ________.
A. since World War II
B. since World War I
C. since the time of Woodrow Wilson
D. since the time of The Federalist Papers

Process, product, organization, leadership, and commitment are the tenets of ________.
A. re-engineering
B. total quality management
C. downsizing
D. e-government

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