Comparative Public Administration
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Comparative Public Administration explores the structures, processes, and functions of public administration across different countries and cultures. This course examines how governments around the world design and implement policies, manage public institutions, and respond to social and economic challenges. Through comparative analysis, students will gain insights into the diverse administrative systems, bureaucratic traditions, and governance models, as well as the influence of political, economic, and cultural contexts on public administration practices. The course also covers contemporary issues and trends in global public management, offering theoretical frameworks and real-world case studies to enhance understanding of comparative approaches in the field.
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Public Administration in Canada 2nd Edition by Paul Barker
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Chapter 1: What Is Public Administration
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Q1) In comparison to the private sector, public servants are expected to adhere to more objectives and to act in ways that result in a lesser degree of efficiency.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Non-profit organizations are private organizations.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following best describes the "post-deficit" era?
A)the federal government's first fiscal surplus in nearly 30 years in the late 1990s
B)the global recession of 2008-2009
C)former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's attempt to re-balance the budget in 2014
D)the oil shocks of 1973
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Values and Ethics in Public Administration
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Q1) Which of the following is similar in meaning to objective responsibility?
A)administrative accountability
B)loyalty
C)identification
D)psychological responsibility
Answer: A
Q2) What type of responsibility refers to the responsibility a person feels towards others, often synonymous with loyalty or conscience?
A)subjective responsibility
B)objective responsibility
C)accountability
D)answerability
Answer: A
Q3) Public servants have security of tenure during good behaviour and satisfactory performance.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
The Structural Foundation
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Q1) Who criticized the idea of organizing by purpose, process, people, and place?
A)Gulick
B)Urwick
C)Simon
D)Selznick
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following best describes the bureaucratic principle that states that there should be only one leader and one plan for organizing activities to accomplish an objective?
A)esprit de corps
B)scalar chain
C)span of control
D)unity of direction
Answer: D
Q3) Frederick Taylor's main contribution to organization theory was his emphasis on the scientific approach to work management.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
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Q1) Which of the following is also a synonym for the sympathetic observer?
A)scientific management
B)Hawthorne experiments
C)circular response
D)integration model
Q2) According to Maslow, which category of needs do food, shelter, and clothing fall under??
A)physiological
B)safety
C)belongingness
D)esteem
Q3) According to the open systems approach, technology is an output.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which type of power is also referred to as positional power?
A)expert power
B)legitimate power
C)coercive power
D)referent power
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Chapter 5: Public Administration and Organization Theory:
The New Public Management, Governance, and Beyond
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Q1) According to the New Public Management Theory, performance measurement should never be the focus or central aspect to the operation of the modern public organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following countries is said to be a non-avid advocate of New Public Management, because it has not fully adopted the complete aspects of New Public Management?
A)Canada
B)United Kingdom
C)New Zealand
D)Australia
Q3) What does PMMA stand for?
A)policy, measurement, management, and accountability
B)policy, measurement, mission, and accountability
C)performance, measurement, mission, and autonomy
D)performance, measurement, management, and accountability
Q4) Open government fosters citizen engagement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Government Departments and Central Agencies
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Q1) The Department of Finance is a central agency.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is a cabinet committee?
A)Prime Minister's Office
B)Treasury Board Secretariat
C)Treasury Board
D)Privy Council Office
Q3) Which of the following is part of the federal legislative branch of government in Canada?
A)Governor General
B)Opposition Parties
C)Public Servants
D)Lieutenant Governor
Q4) A department is structured hierarchically similar to the Weberian bureaucratic model.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Crown Agencies
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Q1) How is accountability maintained in a Crown corporation?
A)There is no accountability because Crown corporations are supposed to be free of government influence.
B)Each Crown corporation has a board of directors who are accountable to the minister, who in turn is accountable and answerable to Parliament.
C)The chief executive officer of the Crown corporation is accountable to parliament directly.
D)The chief executive officer is accountable to the minister in the same way that a deputy minister is accountable to a minister.
Q2) Crown corporations only exist at the federal level.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What type of entity is the Canadian Human Rights Commission?
A)regulatory agency
B)administrative tribunal
C)Crown corporation
D)mixed enterprise
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Chapter 8: Alternative Service Delivery ASD
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Q1) Which of the following is an example of GOCO (government-owned-company-operated)?
A)Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
B)Health Canada
C)RCMP
D)Greater Toronto Airport Authority
Q2) Aside from Crown corporations, non-profit entities can also be privatized.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is the name given to a type of arrangement whereby the private partner builds and operates a particular service for a specified period of time, after which the facility reverts back to the government?
A)company-owned-government-operated (COGO)
B)build-own-operate-transfer (BOOT)
C)government-owned-company-operated (GOCO)
D)outsourcing
Q4) There are about 14 different service agencies in Canada.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Executive and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) What is the maximum number of pages allowed for a memorandum of cabinet?
A)10!
B)20!
C)50!
D)There is no page limit!
Q2) Which of the following central agencies was involved in the Senate scandal in 2013?
A)the Prime Minister's Office
B)the Privy Council Office
C)the Department of Finance
D)the Treasury Board Secretariat
Q3) Which of the following is considered a permanent executive?
A)prime minister
B)cabinet minister
C)governor-general
D)deputy minister
Q4) The governor-general is part of the legislature.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Interdepartmental and Intradepartmental Relations
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Q1) What is the term for interactions within one department?
A)intradepartmental interaction
B)interdepartmental interaction
C)horizontal management
D)vertical management
Q2) Who appoints all department deputy ministers?
A)the cabinet minister
B)the governor-general
C)the prime minister
D)an independent hiring committee
Q3) Which prime minister reinstated the role of the Chief of Staff in 2004?
A)Jean Chretien
B)Paul Martin
C)Stephen Harper
D)Brian Mulroney
Q4) Many of the departmental responsibilities are prescribed in law.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Legislature and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) Legislative committees are established to examine a specific issue, such as same-sex marriage.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who administers the Conflict of Interest and Post-Employment Code for Public Office Holders?
A)The Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
B)The Office of the Privacy Commissioner
C)The Office of the Information Commissioner
D)The Office of the Ethics Commissioner
Q3) Which committee examines both the public accounts and the auditor-general's report as a basis for making recommendations to the House of Commons?
A)Government Operations and Estimates committee
B)Public Accounts committee
C)Privacy and Ethics committee
D)Scrutiny of Regulations committee
Q4) The Office of the Auditor-General reports to Parliament through a minister.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Judiciary and the Bureaucracy
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Q1) Any type of breach of rules concerning natural justice is grounds that can be used to review the legality of an administrative action.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The remedy of awarding damages is only available for administrative functions. A)True
B)False
Q3) What is a mandamus?
A)It is a writ to restrain a tribunal from taking a certain action.
B)It is a writ used to compel an inferior tribunal to exercise the authority conferred on it by statute.
C)It brings a detained person to court in order to determine if the detention is legal.
D)It is used when an inferior tribunal is required to refrain from taking some specified action beyond its powers.
Q4) Only appointed officials located in departments are vulnerable to court action. A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Intergovernmental Administrative Relations
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Q1) The "federal principle" is a concept associated with classical federalism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following types of federalism is more centralized?
A)unilateral federalism
B)collaborative federalism
C)co-operative federalism
D)open federalism
Q3) The period since the rejection of the Charlottetown Agreement has been referred to as "constitutional normalcy."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which province is NOT part of the Tax Collection Agreements that allow the federal government to collect provincial personal income taxes for the provinces?
A)Ontario
B)British Columbia
C)Prince Edward Island
D)Quebec
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Chapter 14: Non-Governmental Actors and the
Bureaucracy
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Q1) News reports thrive better on expected news items than unexpected ones.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which level of public involvement has the purpose to inform and educate the public on an issue of importance?
A)Level 1!
B)Level 2!
C)Level 3!
D)Level 4!
Q3) Which statement correctly reflects interest group tactics?
A)Groups are advised to attempt to influence policy at the post-legislative stage.
B)Groups typically rely on media campaigns and public demonstrations more than quiet, behind-the-scenes consultations.
C)Groups within the inner circle of the policy community rely on a less discreet manner of approaching government.
D)Co-operative lobbying is a very effective and frequently used tactic.
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Chapter 15: The Management of Human Resources
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Q1) Which type of employee cannot work in the public service for longer than 90 days?
A)indeterminate employee
B)term employee
C)determinate employee
D)casual employee
Q2) The government moved from a traditional and highly centralized model of personnel administration to one that is associated with NPM.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Treasury Board Secretariat is one of the major agencies that deals with Human Resource management at the federal level.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Privy Council Office exercises a major influence on human resources policy and appointments for the most senior ranks of the public service.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Representative Bureaucracy and Employment Equity
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Q1) Bargaining units will be accountable for achieving equitable compensation for their members by demonstrating that they were actively engaged in pursuing that objective in the collecting bargaining process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As of 2015, which of the following groups make up the lowest percentage of workforce availability?
A)women
B)members of a visible minority group
C)persons with a disability
D)aboriginal peoples
Q3) The Public Service Commission is ultimately accountable to Parliament for the overall integrity of appointments to the public service.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Pay Equity stands for " equal pay for equal work."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: The Budgetary Process
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Q1) The "totals" in the budget only includes revenues and expenditures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following best describes performance budgeting?
A)It only measures the inputs used.
B)It only measures the outputs attained.
C)It establishes a relationship between inputs employed and outputs attained.
D)It is characterized by small annual adjustments in spending, accompanied by occasional large increases or decreases in expenditure.
Q3) Whose budget speech includes the revenue budget?
A)prime minister
B)finance minister
C)auditor-general
D)governor-general
Q4) What is the date range for the fiscal year for both federal and provincial governments?
A)September 1 to September 1
B)January 1 to December 31
C)April 1 to March 31
D)April 1 to December 31
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