PADM 475 Quiz
PADM 475 Quiz: Modern Public Administration
- Mixed scanning decision making
- Which of the following presidents was a strict constructionist and espoused the restricted view of executive powers?
- The “power-elite” theory espoused by C. Wright Mills states that government is
- Which of the following is a comprehensive description of the role of public administration?
- The reform movement in public administration sought the removal of the merit system and its replacement by the spoils system.
- Devolution is the transfer of power from a central to a local authority.
- The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act has been successful in limiting the passing of unfunded legislation.
- Which of the following is NOT included in Max Weber’s theory of the ideal type of bureaucracy?
- The Federalist, written in 1787-1788, is a collection of
- Administrative law is focused on:
- John Maynard Keynes’s theory of government spending or “pump priming” during periods of economic decline is an illustration of
- The executive power to veto separate items in a particular piece of legislation is known as the item veto.
- Pressman and Wildavsky in their 1973 study of the impact of federal programs in Oakland, California, felt that policy planning should look carefully at the difficulties surrounding the implementation of a policy.
- Which of the following is NOT a cabinet-level department?
- Which of the following is Luther Gulick’s contribution to organization theory?
- Today, “governance” usually refers to inter-organizational efforts to cope with cross-boundary problems.
- A central pillar of Adam Smith’s invisible hand was
- Efficiency is defined in public policy as the extent to which an organization accomplishes some predetermined goal or objective.
- A form of federalism in which the functions and responsibilities of federal and state governments are theoretically distinguished and functionally separate from one another is called
- Which of the following groups came to the conclusion that the president needed help in running the executive branch of the government?
- The agency that allows Congress to exercise financial oversight of the executive branch is the
- Incremental policy decision making implies that
- A city charter is a document that determines the apportionment of representatives on the city council from each ward or district.
- Which of the following is NOT a player in the iron triangle?
- Woodrow Wilson, in his essay explaining the “politics-administration dichotomy,” noted that in public administration there was a need for: