MPA - COMPREHENSIVE EXAM – PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION with Correct Solutions 2024

MPA - COMPREHENSIVE EXAM – PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION with Correct Solutions 2024 1935 - Public administration - Answer -Franklin D Roosevelt , created for both industrial recovery and for unemployment relief. Headed by the Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, it aimed at long-range recovery and spent $4 billion on thousands of projects that included public buildings, highways, and parkways. 1801 - Jefferson - Answer -Began the Spoil System in the U.S government employment 1801 - Spoil System - Answer -Andrew Jackson - Victory rule 1829 - President Andrew Jackson - Answer -Justification for Spoil System. " The duties of public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance" 1900 - Frank Goodnow - Answer -"Politics and Administration" provides the first definition of politicsadministration dichotomy. 1902 - Vilfredo Pareto - father of concept "social Systems" - Answer -His societal notions later applied by Elton Mayo and the human relationists in an organization context. 1776 - Declaration of Independence - Answer -Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations advocates the ability-to-pay principle of taxation and optimal organization of a pin factor. Famous for economic rationale of the factory system and the division of labor. 1972 - Equal Employment Opportunity Act - Answer -To furth promote equal employment opportunities for American Workers 1964 - Civil Rights Acts - Answer -Illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and host of other attributes American with Disabilities Act -ADA - Answer -Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. The ADA also establishes requirements for telecommunications relay services. 1883 - The Pendleton Act - Classic page 10 - Answer -Creates in US Civil Service Commission. 1887 - Woodrow Wilson "The Study of Administration" - Answer -First scholarly study of Public Administration