MPA COMPREHENSIVE EXAM - PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
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 politics-administration 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
, 1887 - Woodrow Wilson - CONT' - Answer -Advocated a separation of Administration
from Policy and formalizing the structure of government to give it purpose and
organization. Public administration is detailed and systematic execution of Public Law
1887 - Woodrow Wilson - President of US. - Answer -1) Establishes Progressive
Reform, End Patronage. 2) Separate Politics from Admin - officially establish the
dichotomy. 3) Admin of Elite Experts. 4) Efficiency like a Business- Figure out what
government can do and how it can do it more efficient and lower costs.
1990 - Frank Goodnow - Two functions of government - Answer -Politics - policies or
expressions and Administration - execution of the state's will. Government requires the
executing authority Administration be subordinate to the expressing authority -Politics -
because under democratic society, politics can be made more representative of the
people.
1911 - Frederick Taylor - 4 Principles - " The Principles of Scientific Management" -
Answer -1 development of science to obtain permanent record for best practices; 2
scientific selection, targeted training, and progressive development of each worker;
1911 - Frederick Taylor - 4 Principles - con't - Answer -3 "bringing together" of the
scientific practices and the trained employee; 4 new division of labor; equal work of the
institution between workers and management. "Soldiering"
1911 - Scientific Management - Taylor - Classic page 2 - Answer -His associate Louis
Brandies. Supreme Court Justice. Applying Scientific Management in railroad
construction to save money.
1912 - Lloyd-LaFollette Act - Answer -Guarantee the right of federal civilian employees
to petition Congress, either individual or through an organization, provide first statutory
procedural safeguards for federal employee facing removal.
1918 - William Willoughby - "The Movement for Budgetary Reform" - Answer -Rejects
the dichotomy. Member of Taft Commission of 1912, first call for a national executive
budgeting system, and key role in writing the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921,
established an executive budgeting system, the Budget Office, and General Accounting
Office.
1918 - William Willoughby - "The Movement for Budgetary Reform"- 3 Major threads.
Classic page 3 - Answer -1. Budget would advance and provide for popular control. 2.
Budget would enhance legislative and executive cooperation 3. Budget would ensure
administrative and management efficiency.
1922 - Max Weber - Bureaucracy - Answer -Structural definition of Bureaucracy is
published posthumously; it uses an "ideal type" approach to extrapolate from real world
the central core of feature.
ADMINISTRATION
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 politics-administration 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
, 1887 - Woodrow Wilson - CONT' - Answer -Advocated a separation of Administration
from Policy and formalizing the structure of government to give it purpose and
organization. Public administration is detailed and systematic execution of Public Law
1887 - Woodrow Wilson - President of US. - Answer -1) Establishes Progressive
Reform, End Patronage. 2) Separate Politics from Admin - officially establish the
dichotomy. 3) Admin of Elite Experts. 4) Efficiency like a Business- Figure out what
government can do and how it can do it more efficient and lower costs.
1990 - Frank Goodnow - Two functions of government - Answer -Politics - policies or
expressions and Administration - execution of the state's will. Government requires the
executing authority Administration be subordinate to the expressing authority -Politics -
because under democratic society, politics can be made more representative of the
people.
1911 - Frederick Taylor - 4 Principles - " The Principles of Scientific Management" -
Answer -1 development of science to obtain permanent record for best practices; 2
scientific selection, targeted training, and progressive development of each worker;
1911 - Frederick Taylor - 4 Principles - con't - Answer -3 "bringing together" of the
scientific practices and the trained employee; 4 new division of labor; equal work of the
institution between workers and management. "Soldiering"
1911 - Scientific Management - Taylor - Classic page 2 - Answer -His associate Louis
Brandies. Supreme Court Justice. Applying Scientific Management in railroad
construction to save money.
1912 - Lloyd-LaFollette Act - Answer -Guarantee the right of federal civilian employees
to petition Congress, either individual or through an organization, provide first statutory
procedural safeguards for federal employee facing removal.
1918 - William Willoughby - "The Movement for Budgetary Reform" - Answer -Rejects
the dichotomy. Member of Taft Commission of 1912, first call for a national executive
budgeting system, and key role in writing the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921,
established an executive budgeting system, the Budget Office, and General Accounting
Office.
1918 - William Willoughby - "The Movement for Budgetary Reform"- 3 Major threads.
Classic page 3 - Answer -1. Budget would advance and provide for popular control. 2.
Budget would enhance legislative and executive cooperation 3. Budget would ensure
administrative and management efficiency.
1922 - Max Weber - Bureaucracy - Answer -Structural definition of Bureaucracy is
published posthumously; it uses an "ideal type" approach to extrapolate from real world
the central core of feature.
