Quiz 1

Question 1

UO Poly Sci’s definition of Public Policy

Answer 1

“explores the relationships between political processes and policy outcomes, centering on the notion that procedures and institutions affect how policies are developed, implemented and consumed”

Question 2

What are governments?

Answer 2

“considered sovereign bodies, holding the highest authority in a specific region”

Question 3

What did the Pendleton Civil Service Act do?

Answer 3

• created a bipartisan Civil Service Commission of 1883
• changed the way that public administrators were hired, thus altering the way policy is carried out

Question 4

street-level bureaucrats

Answer 4

provide public benefits and maintain public order—namely, police officers, social service providers, public school teachers, and judges Furthermore, these individuals carry out the policies that affect many on a daily basis

Question 5

Administrative State

Answer 5

Roberts (2020, p. 392) argues that the concept is “a [type of state] emerging at a specific moment in history, [raising] widespread apprehensions about the growth of untrammeled bureaucratic power

Question 6

Enlightenment

Answer 6

Age of Reason, 17th-18th cent. Western Europe

Question 7

Scottish Enlightenment

Answer 7

Founded by Frances Hutcheson Inspired by ideas from John Locke, and elaborated the conditions that justified overthrowing foreign leaders by tyrannized colonial peoples

Question 8

why is education important?

Answer 8

crucial for developing public servants and
for making policy

Question 9

why did thinkers view learning history as important?

Answer 9

“vital in the education process because it could enhance the well-being of future citizens,”

Question 10

What are Washington’s ideas centered on?

Answer 10

Scottish Enlightenment!

Question 11

Wilson’s Perspective

Answer 11

• Looked at public administration as field of business
• “It is easier to run a Constitution than to frame one.”

Question 12

Goodnow’s Perspective

Answer 12

• “The expression of the will of the state v. the execution of that will.”
• Looked at Politics and Administration
• Making laws - Making policy

Question 13

3 types of authorities

Answer 13

Judicial, executive, administrative

Question 14

primary functions of government

Answer 14

• Expression of the will of the state (politics)
• Execution of the will of the states (administration) carrying out laws
• Administrators (ideally) are neutral

Question 15

What do political parties do?

Answer 15

elect administrative/executive officers