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POL 206 - Exam 1 Questions and
Answers | Latest Update 2024/2025
Public Administration

✓ ~~> Broadly refers to the development, implementation, and study of

branches of government policy



Political definition of public administration

✓ ~~> -what government is

✓ -both direct and indirect

✓ -phase in the public policy-making cycle

✓ -implementing public interest

✓ -doing collectively what cannot be done so well individually



Legal definition of public administration

✓ ~~> -law in action

-regulation

-King's Largesse

-theft



Managerial definition of public administration

✓ ~~> -executive function of government

-management specialty

-Mickey Mouse


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-art, science, craft?



Occupational definition of public administration

✓ ~~> -essay contest

-idealism in action

-academic field

-PROFESSION



Woodrow Wilson

✓ ~~> -public admin as an academic field

"Administration is a unitary process that can be studied uniformally at the

federal, state, and local levels."

-basis for study is management not law

-admin is still an art but the ideal of transformation to science is both feasible

and worthwhile

-admin has become and will continue to be the heart of the problem in

modern government



The scope of public administration

✓ ~~> -constraining and enabling the public

-achieves the centralization of power through decentralized governmental

functions




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Is U.S. democracy a myth?

✓ ~~> -a question

-do democratic institutions lack accountability

-American middle class discontent (increasing burdens and diminishing

benefits)

-challenges of a two-party system (prevents coming up with alternative

options; limits what people think can be changed); not pragmatic or flexible



The Constitution

✓ ~~> the supreme law of the land



Preamble

✓ ~~> -in the Constitution

-states government is based on the consent of the people



Bill of Rights

✓ ~~> -first 10 amendments to the constitution



Branches of Government

✓ ~~> executive, legislative, judicial



Legislative Branch




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