PADM 475 Quiz

PADM 475 Quiz: Modern Public Administration

1. Mixed scanning decision making
2. Which of the following presidents was a strict constructionist and espoused the restricted view of executive powers?
3. The “power-elite” theory espoused by C. Wright Mills states that government is
4. Which of the following is a comprehensive description of the role of public administration?
5. The reform movement in public administration sought the removal of the merit system and its replacement by the spoils system.
6. Devolution is the transfer of power from a central to a local authority.
7. The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act has been successful in limiting the passing of unfunded legislation.
8. Which of the following is NOT included in Max Weber’s theory of the ideal type of bureaucracy?
9. The Federalist, written in 1787-1788, is a collection of
10. Administrative law is focused on:
11. John Maynard Keynes’s theory of government spending or “pump priming” during periods of economic decline is an illustration of
12. The executive power to veto separate items in a particular piece of legislation is known as the item veto.
13. 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.
14. Which of the following is NOT a cabinet-level department?
15. Which of the following is Luther Gulick’s contribution to organization theory?
16. Today, “governance” usually refers to inter-organizational efforts to cope with cross-boundary problems.
17. A central pillar of Adam Smith’s invisible hand was
18. Efficiency is defined in public policy as the extent to which an organization accomplishes some predetermined goal or objective.
19. 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
20. Which of the following groups came to the conclusion that the president needed help in running the executive branch of the government?
21. The agency that allows Congress to exercise financial oversight of the executive branch is the
22. Incremental policy decision making implies that
23. A city charter is a document that determines the apportionment of representatives on the city council from each ward or district.
24. Which of the following is NOT a player in the iron triangle?
25. Woodrow Wilson, in his essay explaining the “politics-administration dichotomy,” noted that in public administration there was a need for: