PAD Midterm Session 1

PAD Midterm Session 1

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Historical Events in PA are what?

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Section 1

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Historical Events in PA are what?

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- Civil Service Reform (1883) - Woodrow Wilson: The Study of Administration (1887) - Goodnow: Politics and Administration (1900) - Frederick Taylor: , Principles of Scientific Management (1916) -Budget Reform

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What is a definition of public administration?

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PA is an extremely broad discipline --No generally accepted definition

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Public Goods (Non-Excludable good)

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Non-paying consumers cannot be prevented from accessing it

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Non street level bureaucrats

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Civil service workers, public managers in government agencies

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Why have Government? Provide Infrastructure

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Provide infrastructure to conduct business (ex. nitial construction of roads and signage, public transport, utilities, channels of communication)

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Street level bureaucrats

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Police officer, teachers social workers

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How does PA generally differ from business administration?

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-Ambiguity of goals -Pluralistic decision making -Visibility of managerial actions

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Who is a public administrator?

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Those who work in various levels of government and help to deliver public goods and services to citizens

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What is the ethical foundation of public administration?

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Democracy, Bureaucracy, Publicness

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Legislative Branch

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-The Congress -Senate house

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How is democracy different from bureaucracy?

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Democracy values individualism, equality, and pluralistic decision making

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What is the difference between public and private management?

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-Time perspective -Duration -Performance measurement -Equity and efficiency

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Three general tenets of the American democracy are what?

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-Individualism -Equity -Liberty

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How is Bureaucracy different from democracy?

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Bureaucracy values the group, the hierarchy, and top-down decision making

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What do public administrators do?

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Deliver public services to citizens

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What is publicness?

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A broader conception of public administration advanced by Barry Bozeman. The degree to which the public is inolved in or has access to public administrations.

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Why have Government? Public Goods

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Provide public goods not supplied by the market, (ex. national defense, criminal and civil justice, emergency service

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Executive Branch

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-President and Vice President -White House office -Department of defense, justice, state, agriculture, etc

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What is Public administration?

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(PA) is concerned with the implementation of public policy; it is also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares workers for the public and, increasingly, nonprofit sectors

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Judicial Branch

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-Supreme court of the United States -USA Court of appeals -Court of federal claims

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Public Goods (Non-Rivalrous good)

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A type of good that may only be possessed or consumed by many usersat the same time at no additional cost

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