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Question 1

What is public admin?

Answer 1

the implementation of gov’t policies

Question 2

what was Leonard White’s version of public admin?

Answer 2

the management of people and materials in the accomplishment of the purpose of the state

Question 3

what is bureaucracy?

Answer 3

the structure within which virtually gov’t organizations operate to ensure that goods and services can be produced or provided in the most efficient manner possible

Question 4

What is bureaucracy characterized by?

Answer 4

1. Division of labor
2. Job specialization with no functional overlap
3. hierarchy
4. Expertise
5. A system of internal rules, regulations, and record keeping (and informal policies)

Question 5

what is public management?

Answer 5

the management of organizations within the gov’t or non profit sector, driven by its need to reach its goals or mission rather than to make a profit

Question 6

what are stakeholders?

Answer 6

bureaucrats, elected officials, groups of citizens, and organized/unorganized interests affected by the decisions of federal, state, and local governments; those having a stake in the outcome of public policies

Question 7

what is a target population?

Answer 7

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 8

what is hierarchy?

Answer 8

a characteristic of formal bureaucratic organization with a clear vertical chain of command

Question 9

what is a reverse pyramid?

Answer 9

a conception of organizational structure, especially in service organizations, whereby managerial duties focus on providing necessary support to frontline employees who deal directly with individuals seeking the organization’s services.

Question 10

what is an entrepreneurial gov’t?

Answer 10

a system of organization that emphasizes productivity management, measurable performance, privatization, and change.

Question 11

what is power?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

what is sovereignty?

Answer 12

holding the highest (supreme) authority in a specific region

Question 13

what is jurisdiction?

Answer 13

in bureaucratic politics, the area of programmatic responsibility assigned to an agency by the legislature or chief executive

Question 14

what are the general typologies?

Answer 14

1. constituent
2. distributive
3. regulatory
4. self-regulatory
5. redistributive

Question 15

what does constituent mean?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

what does distributive mean?

Answer 16

Allocation of benefits and services at no charge to target populations

Question 17

what does regulatory mean?

Answer 17

Imposes restrictions or limitations on the behavior of individuals or groups

Question 18

what does self regulatory mean?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

what does redistributive mean?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

what is functional overlap?

Answer 20

functions in contemporary American bureaucracy that are performed by one bureaucratic entity may also be performed by another.

Question 21

what is Span of control?

Answer 21

the number of people an individual supervises within a subunit of an organization

Question 22

what are human relations?

Answer 22

theories of organization that stress identification and limited satisfaction of workers’ noneconomic needs and motivations on the job

Question 23

what is the halo effect?

Answer 23

tendency of those being observed to change their behaviors to meet the expectations of researchers

Question 24

what is the systems theory

Answer 24

organizations may behave according to inputs from their environment, outputs resulting from organizational activity, and feedback leading to further inputs

Question 25

what is a closed system?

Answer 25

organizations exist with few external variables and relationships, with minimal uncertainty

Question 26

what is an open system?

Answer 26

organizations are highly complex entities that interact with their environment and face uncertainty

Question 27

what is the zone of acceptance?

Answer 27

the extend to which a foller is willing to be led and obey the leader’s commands or directives

Question 28

what is formal communications?

Answer 28

official written documentation within and organization, including electronic documents, that form the framework for organization intent and activity

Question 29

what is gobbledygook?

Answer 29

misleading jargon or meaningless technical terms often used purposely to obscure the meaning of communication within organizations

Question 30

what is bureaucratic discretion?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

what are the sources of political support?

Answer 31

1. the legislature
2. the executive branch
3. agency constituents
4. the general public

Question 32

what is the iron triangle consist of?

Answer 32

1. congress
2. bureaucracy
3. interest groups

Question 33

what are subsystems?

Answer 33

any political alliance uniting some members of an administrative agency, a legislative committee or subcommittee, and an interest group according to shared values and preferences in the same substantive area of policy making

Question 34

what is multiple referral?

Answer 34

a house and senate leadership tactic of referring a bill to more than one congressional committee

Question 35

what is intergovernmental relations?

Answer 35

the collaborative dynamic, or working relationships, that exist among all (types and) levels within the U.S. federal system

Question 36

what are the vertical pickets?

Answer 36

programs

Question 37

what are the horizontal pickets?

Answer 37

levels of the gov’t

Question 38

what is the shared services agreement?

Answer 38

an inter local agreement designed to reduce service delivery costs and ease the tax burden to their citizens while simultaneously streamlining local services, cutting redundancies and enhancing gov’t responsiveness

Question 39

what is ad-hocracy?

Answer 39

temporary work groups to complete tasks typically reserved for public organizations

Question 40

what are administrative ethics?

Answer 40

the rights and duties that individuals should respect when they act in ways that seriously affect the well-being of other individuals and society; and
The conditions that collective practices and policies should satisfy when they similarly affect the well-being of individuals and society