COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Introducing Public Administration 10Ed by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell , Christopher P. Borick & Albert C. Hyde. ALL Chapters Included 1-14. 165 Pages of Content-A+ Graded for 2023

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COMPLETE - Elaborated Test Bank for Introducing Public Administration 10Ed by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell , Christopher P. Borick & Albert C. Hyde. ALL Chapters Included 1-14. 165 Pages of Content-... A+ Graded for 2023 Introducing Public Administration 10Ed by Jay M. Shafritz, E. W. Russell , Christopher P. Borick & Albert C. Hyde TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 - Defining Public Administration Chapter 2 - The Political, Social, and Economic Environment of Public Policy and Its Administration Chapter 3 - The Social Equity Imperative in Public Administration Chapter 4 - The Architecture and Institutions of Government Chapter 5 - Intergovernmental Relations Chapter 6 - Honor, Ethics, and Accountability Chapter 7 - Public Administration and Organization Theory Chapter 8 - Organizational Behaviour Chapter 9 - Public Management and Information Technology Chapter 10 - Futuring, Planning, and Government Regulation Chapter 11 - Human Resoueces Management and Labor Relations Chapter 12 - Public Budgeting and Financial Management Chapter 13 - Program Evaluation and Audit Chapter 14 - Leadership and Followership in Public Administration SAMPLE QUESTIONS: Question #1 Why do we need to understand public administration as a political process? PP: 5-7; 22-24 Question #2 What is an example of direct public administration? PP: 7-8 Question #3 What is an example of indirect public administration? PP: 7-8 Question #4 Privatization of government services became popular during which presidential administration? PP: 7 Question #5 Why do we think of public policy and public administration as two sides of the same coin? Why does public policy making not end with implementation? What role does evaluation have in public administration? PP: 8-9 2 Question #6 Why is the definition of public interest a political process? How is public interest shaped? How is the bureaucrat an interest-group broker? Does the bureaucrat need to maintain autonomy from special interest groups to ensure that the public interest is not compromised in the work of public administration? PP: 8-9 Question #7 What is the legal basis of public law? How is public administration bounded by rules and regulations? Why can regulations be interpreted as a tool to reach the strategic goals of government? PP: 10-12 Question #8 Why is judicial review so important? PP: 10 Question #9 How does procedural public administration relate to administrative law? PP: 10-12 Question #10 What is the basic mechanism of redistribution? Why are government’s redistribution policies politically contentious? PP: 12-13 Question #11 Why is Public Administration taught as a management discipline applicable to all levels of government and even non-profits? What are the roles of middle managers in public administration? Why is one person’s “red tape” considered as another’s “treasured procedural safeguard”? PP 13-15 3 Question #12 How do the executive and legislative branches compete to influence public administration? What is Alexander Hamilton’s understanding of the role of the executive in public administration? PP: 13-14 Question #13 Why does idealism draw people into the field of public administration? PP: 17-18 Question #14 How did the field of public administration benefit from the contributions of Woodrow Wilson? PP: 18-19 Question #15 What were Leonard White’s four critical assumptions that formed the basis for the study of public administration? PP: 18-20 Question #16 Why is the field of public administration thought to be having an identity crisis? PP: 18-22 Question #17 Why does the textbook claim that Public Administration is now more interdisciplinary as a field of study and a discipline? Why has public administration always been controversial as an independent academic field? PP: 18-21 4 Question #18 Why can one argue that public administration is a profession? PP: 21 Question #19 How did the Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 (Pendleton Act) influence the nature of public administration? How did reform Act intend to improve professionalization of civil service? PP: 25-26 Question #20 How does Mosher argue in 1980 that the federal government’s pattern of involvement in public administration was shifting from over to covert? PP: 26-29 Question #21 What was the logic behind deregulation of the 1970s and 1980s, and how did regulation still leave many critical oversight functions in the hands of public bureaucracies? PP: 26-29 Question #22 How can the new challenges posed by the current pandemic, environmental sustainability, and social justice movements renew calls for greater government regulation? How can various forms of populism and anti-government social behaviors pose challenges to public administration? PP: 26-29 5 Question #23 Government’s use of private contractors to provide public services is an example of: A. Bribery B. Indirect Public Administration C. Governmental Incompetence D. Boosting Public Sector Employment E. None of the Above KEY: B Question #24 Public Administration does not require: A. Legislative Oversight B. The Executive Branch to be Involved C. Any Judicial Review D. A Budget E. None of the Above KEY: E Question #25 The largest expense category in state and local government budget is in: A. Health and Social Welfare B. Protective Services (police, fire, corrections) C. Education D. Administration E. None of the Above KEY: C [Show More]

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