Public Administration Exam 1 Test exam
232Questions Answered 2024 Rated A+
Define administration - CORRECT ANSWERS To serve, minister, furnish a
benefit, to manage affairs for others
What is the purpose of Public Administration? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Implementation of public policy
Prepares workers for the public and nonprofit sectors
Luther Gulick define Public Administration as - CORRECT ANSWERS If
government does it, it is public administration
Who defines Public Administration as "If government does it, it is public
administration" - CORRECT ANSWERS Luther Gulick
How can public administration be defined? - CORRECT ANSWERS The
management of individuals to serve the local, state, and federal government to
result in executive action.
What three levels are included in the government structure? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Federal, state, and local government
What are the three branches of the government - CORRECT ANSWERS
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
That are the overall roles of the legislative branch - CORRECT ANSWERS to
make laws
ie. Congress
That are the overall roles of the executive branch - CORRECT ANSWERS
Carries out laws
,Public Administration Exam 1 Test exam
232Questions Answered 2024 Rated A+
President, VP, and cabinet
That are the overall roles of the judicial branch - CORRECT ANSWERS
evaluates laws
Supreme Court and other courts
How are the branches at the state level organized - CORRECT ANSWERS
Organization is based off of the federal government
Legislative: is unicameral expect in Nebraska which is bi cameral
- two chambers: small upper house (senate) and a larger lower house
Executive: governor
Judicial: Supreme Court
How are the branches of government organized at the local level? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Manages its own affairs independently
General Purpose of Government: County, Municipality, and Township
Special District Government: Independent School Districts and others
Why do we have government? - CORRECT ANSWERS Provide public goods not
supplied by the market
- national defense
- emergency management
- essential services to the poor
,Public Administration Exam 1 Test exam
232Questions Answered 2024 Rated A+
- roads, transportations, utilities, parks etc...
enforcing/carrying out laws
soften negative externalities of capitalism
What are two characteristics that separate private goods from public goods? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Private goods have...
excludability: if someone can exclude others in using/consuming resources
Rivalry: if someone's use of a resource effects others
What goods are excludable and rivalrous - CORRECT ANSWERS private goods
ie. iPod, food, clothes, car
What goods are non-excludable and rivalrous - CORRECT ANSWERS common-
pool resources
ie. fish in open sea, coal, timber
What goods are excludable and non-rivalrous - CORRECT ANSWERS Toll
(Club) goods
ie. cinemas, private parks, satellite television
What goods are non-excludable and non-rivalrous - CORRECT ANSWERS
Public goods
, Public Administration Exam 1 Test exam
232Questions Answered 2024 Rated A+
ie. nation defense, air
What are public administrators? - CORRECT ANSWERS who the government
works through
they work at various levels of government
help deliver public good and services to citizens
ie. civil service workers, public managers, and "street-level beureaucrats"
What do public administrators do/ whats expected of them? - CORRECT ANSWERS
Deliver public services to citizens
obliged to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness in service delivery
they should concern justice, liberty, obedience, and the role of the state
What does the public think of public administrators? - CORRECT ANSWERS
lazy and unmotivated
inefficient and wasteful
resistant to change
obstructive and "in the way"
unaccountable
power hungry-corrupt
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