Chapter 1

Question 1

What is bureaucracy?

Answer 1

To ensure that goods and services can be produced or provided in the most efficient manner possible.

Question 2

What did Max Weber define has the characteristics to bureaucracy?

Answer 2

1. Jurisdictional boundaries
2. Hierarchy
3. Reliance on written documents
4. Expertly trained managers
5. The management of the organization subscribes to general rules, which can be learned and applied more or less uniformly.

Question 3

What is public administration?

Answer 3

the implementation of gov’t policies

Question 4

What does PODSCORB stand for?

Answer 4

P-planning
O-organizing
D-Directing
S-staffing
CO- Coordinating
R- recruiting
B-Budgeting

Question 5

What is bureaucratic discretion?

Answer 5

is the ability of public employees to make decisions interpreting the law and administrative regulations

Question 6

What are incentives for civil servant?

Answer 6

1. tenure
2. legal protections

Question 7

What does tenure do?

Answer 7

Transitioned to a more merit based democracy, and includes how long someone works for the government.

Question 8

What are the legal protections?

Answer 8

Public employees are entities, to the benefit of the constitution

Question 9

What is a constitutional legal protection?

Answer 9

the 5th and 14th amendment

Question 10

What does the 5th amendment say?

Answer 10

nor shall any person be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

Question 11

What does the 14th amendment say?

Answer 11

nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, property, without due process of law

Question 12

What are statutory legal protections?

Answer 12

Right to a hearing if public employee is to be terminated
-can only be fired with cause

Question 13

What is an example of a SCOTUS case

Answer 13

Perry v. Sindermann (1972)

Question 14

What are the 5 main concepts of expertise?

Answer 14

1. Full time attention to a policy problem or existing program
2. Specialization in the subject
3. Often hold a monopoly on information decision-makers want access to
   True in corporate america as well
4. Increased reliance on technical expertise/advice in a technological era
5. Increasing control by experts of bureaucratic discretion

Question 15

What are the hierarchy styles?

Answer 15

Maslow’s and Webers

Question 16

What is the division of labor?

Answer 16

stematic assignment of specific tasks or responsibilities to different individuals or departments within a government organization

Question 17

What are the general policy typologies?

Answer 17

1. constituent
2. Distributive
3. Regulatory
4. self-regulatory
5. Redistributive

Question 18

What does constituent mean?

Answer 18

created for the purpose of forming gov’t structure (state-building)

Question 19

What does distributive mean?

Answer 19

Allocation of benefits and services at no charge to target populations

Question 20

What does regulatory mean?

Answer 20

Imposes restrictions or limitations on the behavior of individuals or groups

Question 21

What does self-regulatory mean?

Answer 21

Often imposed by the regulated group for the protection of its members

Question 22

What does redistributive mean?

Answer 22

Deliberate action of the gov’t to shift the allocation of wealth, income, property, and/or rights to broad groups considered as disadvantaged

Question 23

What are some examples of self regulatory programs?

Answer 23

boards of nurses, the state bar associations, cosmetologists etc.

Question 24

what is an example of distributive?

Answer 24

Public education, dams, flood control, highways, the bail out

Question 25

What is a target population?

Answer 25

the people identified by a policy whose behavior is linked to the achievement of desired ends, based on a public problem to be solved or goals to be achieved

Question 26

What is jurisdiction?

Answer 26

the area of programmatic responsibility assigned to an agency by the legislature or chief executive

Question 27

what is power?

Answer 27

a has power over b to the extent that he can get b to do something that b would not otherwise do

Question 28

what is sovereignty?

Answer 28

holding the highest (supreme) authority in a specific region

Question 29

What is the reverse pyramid?

Answer 29

managerial duties focus on providing necessary support to frontline employees who deal directly with individuals seeking the organization’s services.