Exam 3: What Is Public Administration?

Public administration involves ______.

All of the following are complicating factors that must be taken into account when studying large-scale organizations EXCEPT ______.

How are public administrators accountable to other branches of government through oversight activities?

By 1980, Waldo argued that the distinctions between "public" and "private" had become even more ______ since government entities were becoming even more involved in ______ and the private sector was taking on more ______.

Unlike the private sector, the public sector is accountable to each of the following EXCEPT ______.

What term best describes the process of translating public policies into results?

Each of the following makes public organizations distinct from private organizations EXCEPT ______.

To American citizens, the term bureaucracy most often means something ______.

Each of the following explains increased administrative action in policy formation EXCEPT ______.

What role does the public administration process play in policy execution and policy formation? Do you believe that administrators play a central-enough role in contributing to the formation process?

Which type of entity emphasizes equity, efficiency, and managing by persuasion?

Scholars created a common definition for public administration a century after the field's inception.

Congress broadly forbids "unfair methods of competition ...and unfair or deceptive acts in commerce," leaving the administrative agency and the courts to refine those vague terms ______.and ______.

Which of the following is considered too inefficient to accomplish much of anything but at the same time so powerful that decisions can be made arbitrarily without due process?

All of the following are categories of the different processes that distinguish public organizations from private organizations EXCEPT ______.

Woodrow Wilson's view on which of the following topics has created a lasting scholarly debate?

Since WWII, citizens' demands have resulted in each of the following EXCEPT ______.

What scholar coined the concept of public administration neutrality?

The term red tape refers to the ways administrators must use federal programs to more securely attach the different layers of government.

Dwight Waldo coined the term the administrative state in ______.