Public Administration is correct answers government in action- the management of public affairs
or implementation of public policies
In what ways does the government carry out PA? correct answers - suppling goods and services
- making and enforcing regulations
-managing resources
-resolving conflicts in an efficient and equitable manner
Public administration is distinct from private administration because correct answers of the role of public authority
public organizations administer law characteristic organizational processes
what are the 4 different definitions of Public Administration? correct answers political, legal, occupational, managerial
Political def- public administration cannot exist outside of its correct answers political context
political def- PA reflects the culture's correct answers norms, beliefs, and power realities of its society.
Direct Public Adminstration -political def correct answers when government employees provide services like mortgage insurance, mail delivery, and electricity
Indirect Public Administration- political def correct answers when the government pays private contractors to provide goods and services to citizens (space shuttle, dams)
Political definitions of PA correct answers -Is what government does
-exists within a political environment - public administration is a phase in the public policymaking cycle -is about implementing the public interest
- is about doing collectively what cannot be done individually
Legal definitions of Public Administration correct answers - is both created and bound by an instrument of the law - is law in action - is regulations, ordinances, codes, etc. - public administration is the kind's largesse
Managerial definition of PA correct answers -is so much a branch of management -is the executive function of government - is a management speciality -is both art and science or vice versa
Occupational definition of PA correct answers -has occupational fields- economics, politics, management, law, social welfare, engineering, ethics
-is an academic field
- is idealism in action -is a profession
What is Public Policymaking? correct answers - It is a decision on the part of government.
- it is what government decides to do or not to do -it is hierarchical in nature
Public administration is inherently an instrument of correct answers policy
"______" while interpreting policy, may create it correct answers Street Level Bureaucrats
The form of government in the United States is a correct answers democratic republic
while the people are sovereign, they make policy through their elected representatives- this is called correct answers representative democracy
The legislative branch (Congress) correct answers makes the laws
Judicial branch correct answers interprets the laws
The executive branch (president) correct answers administers and enforces the laws
There are Three conceptualizations of Executive Power correct answers The conservative view, prerogative view, and the stewardship view.
Maintains that the president, governor, or mayor is an agent of the legislature and restricted by it correct answers the conservative view
holds that under certain circumstances, the president possesses extraordinary powers to safeguard
the nation and can go above Congress as needed correct answers the prerogative view
argues that the president is a trustee of the people and can take any action not forbidden by the Constitution to act on their behalf correct answers the stewardship view
Policy and Administration is not made in a vacuum but rather influenced by correct answers -
social and economic conditions -prevailing political values
- public mood at any given time
-structure of government -national and local cultural norms