SPEA-V185 Exam 1 Latest(2026/2026) Questions and Answers 100% Correct.
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SPEA-V185
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SPEA-V185
How of the U.S. Bureaucracy grown and developed over time? - ️️Americans
originally distrustful of large central government after gaining independence. Only three
cabinet level departments. Very narrow functions in regards to collection of revenues,
maintaining military, etc. The spoils syst...
SPEA-V185 Exam 1
How of the U.S. Bureaucracy grown and developed over time? - ✔️✔️Americans
originally distrustful of large central government after gaining independence. Only three
cabinet level departments. Very narrow functions in regards to collection of revenues,
maintaining military, etc. The spoils system was in place until President Garfield's
assassination's. Government came into a larger role due to more land and growing
population. Civil War resulted in more federal agencies. People's attitudes changed
towards business which ended in calling for more regulation of businesses. 1913
establishment of income tax provides a basis for funding a large sophisticated
bureaucracy.
1930s great depression resulted in new deal programs.
Social welfare became socially acceptable.
1940s to 1960s President Johnson's war on poverty.
(also a need to build technologically advanced society)
How do public and public organizations differ in their risk tasking - ✔️✔️Public
organizations are risk aversive.
Public organizations don't feel need to take risks because there's no incentive to make a
profit like there is in a public organization
Public Policy - ✔️✔️The action or inaction of government regarding a particular issue
or set of issues. What government does or purposely doesn't do.
Bureaucracy - ✔️✔️A specific form of organization defined by complexity, division of
labor, permanence, professional management, hierarchical, coordination control, strict
chain of command, and legal authority.
Public Management - ✔️✔️the formal and informal process of guiding human
interaction toward public organizational objectives.
Advantages of Bureaucracy - ✔️✔️Division of labor
Hierarchy
Written rules and regulations
impersonality
Hiring based on technical expertise
Disadvantages of Bureaucracy - ✔️✔️Division of labor
Hierarchy
Written rules and regulations
, Impersonality
Hiring Based on technical expertise
politics-administration dichotomy - ✔️✔️Study of public administration as a neutral
instrument distinct from policy and politics.
Progressive era - ✔️✔️time at the turn of the 20th century in which groups sought to
reform America economically, socially, and politically
Polarchys - ✔️✔️Government controls means of production and relies heavily on
coercive mechanisms of command and control based on central.
Markets - ✔️✔️Buyers and sellers particpate voluntary, prices determined based on
amount that people willing to pay.
Producers try to sell highest quality for lowest price.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Markets - ✔️✔️Advantages:
- Creates competing prices so people get the best product possible.
- Builds a strong economy
Disadvantage:
- Market failures (can't produce public goods)
Advantages of Disadvantages of Polarcys - ✔️✔️Advantages:
- Can produce public goods
- US has perfect system because we have both
Disadvantages:
- Hierarchical system creates inefficiency.
Public Goods definition - ✔️✔️Something government provides that benefits everyone.
Characteristics of public goods - ✔️✔️non-rival and non-excludable
What is free-rider? - ✔️✔️Collective action problem that arises when people receive a
public good without paying.
Examples of market failures - ✔️✔️- Monopolies
- Information asymmetries - When an organization makes sure everything is ok for the
public to use because gov doesn't have time (e.g. CDC, FDA)
- Negative Externalities
- Free-Riders
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