PADM 3000 Exam Review Questions & Answers 2024/2025
What is administration discretion and what is its relationship with street level bureaucrats? - ANSWERSAdministrative discretion- An administrator's freedom to act or decide on his or her own, which amounts to giving administrators policy mak...
What is administration discretion and what is its relationship with street level bureaucrats? -
ANSWERSAdministrative discretion- An administrator's freedom to act or decide on his or her own,
which amounts to giving administrators policy making powers. Street-level Bureaucrat- Term coined by
Michael Lipsky to refer to teachers, police officers, welfare case workers, and any other front line
government workers with considerable administrative discretion. pg.16.
What is Public Administration? - ANSWERSDwight Waldo, "No single, agreed, and authoritative definition
of Public Administration is possible."
Leonard D. White, "Defined in broadest terms, public administration consists of all those operations
having for their purpose the fulfillment or enforcement of public policy."
Simon, Thompson, and Smithburg, "by public administration is meant, in common usage, the activities of
the executive branches of national, state, and local governments; independent boards and commissions
set up by congress and state legislatures; and certain other agencies within the government and
nongovernmental administration."
There is more on page 8, but the book gives the definition: Public Administration consists of the
managerial and political processes that occur in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches for the
purposes of creating, implementing, and assessing public policy.
Describe Public Choice Theory - ANSWERSThe theory that bureaucrats, voters, and politicians are
concerned primarily with advancing their own economic self-interests the the administrative and
political processes. Page 39.
Does Public Choice Theory properly capture public behavior? - ANSWERSTheorists place a large part of
the blame for big government on the voters themselves. Human nature exists and everyone favors their
own things, but they don't want to pay the taxes for all the programs everybody wants.
Is the concept of Administrative Evil by Adams and Balfour a real one? - ANSWERSharmful acts
committed by public officials, who are often unaware that they are doing anything wrong. pg. 62.
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