Introduction to Public Administration Question Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to Public Administration provides an overview of the fundamental principles, theories, and practices involved in the management of public sector organizations. This course explores the role of government agencies, the processes of policy formulation and implementation, ethical considerations, and the functions of public administrators in addressing societal needs. Students will examine the historical development of the field, key administrative concepts such as bureaucracy and accountability, and the contemporary challenges facing public service. Through case studies and real-world examples, the course aims to equip students with an understanding of how public administration contributes to effective governance and public value.
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Government in America People Politics and Policy Brief Edition 11th Edition by George C. Edwards
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Chapter 1: Introducing Government in America
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Q1) Elite theory contends that class is the major dividing line in politics and that the upper-class elite pull the strings of government.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) According to hyperpluralists,the increasing caseloads of federal and state courts demonstrate
A)the high status of attorneys in the United States.
B)the inability to control the bureaucracy in implementing policy.
C)that groups are more likely to appeal to different institutions in order to gain policy benefits.
D)the expanding scope of government in the United States.
E)the increasing complexity of our social networks.
Answer: D
Q3) Young people are more likely to be politically informed than are older Americans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Constitution
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Q1) The New Jersey Plan called for equal representation of each state in Congress regardless of the state's population.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of state governments after the American Revolution?
A)Government in the states became more responsive to the people.
B)State constitutions concentrated power in state legislatures.
C)States were increasingly influenced by the idea of equality.
D)States were increasingly influenced by civic republicanism.
E)Elites entered state legislatures at higher numbers.
Answer: E
Q3) Judicial review refers to the power of the Courts to determine whether acts of Congress and actions of the executive are constitutional.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Federalism
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Q1) The supremacy clause
A)establishes the Constitution,laws of the national government,and treaties as the supreme law of the land.
B)establishes the Supreme Court as the final arbiter in all civil and criminal disputes.
C)declares that the national government is superior to the states in every concern.
D)states that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,nor prohibited by the states,are reserved to the states.
E)states that the people are the supreme authority in the United States and that the government shall be subservient to them.
Answer: A
Q2) Enumerated powers are those that are
A)reserved for the states.
B)stated in the Constitution.
C)implied in the Constitution.
D)involving money matters.
E)granted specifically to the president.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Civil Liberties and Public Policy
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Q1) In Miami Herald Publishing Company v.Tornillo (1974),the Court
A)voided a Florida state law requiring newspapers to provide space for political candidates to reply to newspaper criticism.
B)upheld a Florida state law requiring newspapers to provide space for political candidates to reply to newspaper criticism.
C)ruled that print media would be subject to a lower standard of constitutional review than broadcast media.
D)ruled that political candidates' rights to free speech required newspapers to grant them space to communicate with voters.
E)ruled that newspapers were prohibited from printing stories that criticized political candidates.
Q2) In its 2002 decision in Zelman v.Simmons-Harris,the Supreme Court ruled that it is constitutional to provide families with publicly funded vouchers that could be used to pay for tuition at religious schools.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What is prior restraint? How has the Supreme Court dealt with this issue?
Q4) What is the exclusionary rule and how has it been used by the Supreme Court?
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Chapter 5: Civil Rights and Public Policy
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Q1) After Brown v.Board of Education (1954),school integration in the South
A)was unaffected by the decision.
B)ended abruptly.
C)was completed within three years.
D)never changed.
E)proceeded very slowly.
Q2) Explain the Supreme Court's three standards for classifications under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Q3) The women's rights movement was most famously launched with the signing of the A)Feminist Manifesto.
B)Emancipation Proclamation.
C)Seneca Falls Declaration.
D)Equal Rights Amendment.
E)Declaration of Independence.
Q4) The ________ Amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
A)Tenth
B)Eleventh
C)Twelfth
D)Thirteenth
E)Fourteenth
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Chapter 6: Public Opinion and Political Action
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Q1) What is the importance of the family to the process of political socialization?
Q2) Reapportionment occurs after every census to reallocate seats in
A)the Senate.
B)the president's cabinet.
C)the Supreme Court.
D)the House of Representatives.
E)both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Q3) The number of college degrees that Asian Americans hold is twice that of the national average.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hispanics comprise approximately what percentage of the American population?
A)3 percent
B)15 percent
C)23 percent
D)33 percent
E)43 percent
Q5) The study of public opinion is the science of population changes.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Mass Media and the Political Agenda
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Q1) In its study of 240 hours of cable news programming in 2003,the Columbia University Project for Excellence in Journalism found that
A)only 11 percent of the time was taken up with written and edited stories.
B)the role of the reporter was primarily to talk extemporaneously.
C)stories were reported frequently,usually without any important new information.
D)coverage of the news was spotty,ignoring many important topics.
E)All of these were found in the study.
Q2) In media coverage of contemporary political events,the typical sound bite is 30 seconds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The media are always monopolized by political elites.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Internet is more purposive than TV; that is,what people see is the product of their own intentional choices.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Political Parties
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Q1) What are patronage jobs?
A)Jobs given for political reasons rather than for merit or competence
B)Jobs in the national convention
C)Jobs given on the basis of merit rather than for political reasons
D)A description of anyone who worked in the Daley administration in Chicago
E)Jobs that manage volunteers
Q2) What sort of realignment has occurred in the current party era over the past generation?
A)A southern realignment
B)A rural/urban realignment
C)A cultural realignment
D)An entire realignment
E)An age-based realignment
Q3) The "three-headed political giant" refers to the three branches of government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The battle between political parties for control of public offices is called party competition.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Campaigns and Voting Behavior
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Q1) The belief that in order to support democratic government a citizen should always vote is a belief in the notion of
A)civic duty.
B)political efficacy.
C)political legitimacy.
D)suffrage.
E)the mandate theory of elections.
Q2) The intention of the McGovern-Fraser Commission reforms of the Democratic Party was to
A)close delegate selection processes to the public.
B)make national conventions more democratic.
C)provide party leaders with more influence in national conventions.
D)construct rules for media coverage of national conventions.
E)grant the national convention the power to select party delegates.
Q3) Explain the idea of a national primary.Explain the idea of a regional primary.How would a national or regional primary address some of the criticisms of our current nomination system?
Q4) Do political campaigns affect individuals voting behavior? Explain.
Q5) What are 527 groups? How have they played a role in recent campaigns?
Q6) What is meant by "soft money" in a political campaign,and why is it important?
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Chapter 10: Interest Groups
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Q1) Interest groups differ from political parties because
A)parties use technology more effectively.
B)groups tend to be policy specialists while parties tend to be policy generalists.
C)the groups' main arena is the electoral system.
D)parties seek many access points in government.
E)parties use technology less effectively.
Q2) Which of the following is an example of a labor union?
A)AFL-CIO
B)AARP
C)FEC
D)FCC
E)NIH
Q3) According to the text,lobbying works best
A)with people who are undecided about a policy.
B)when large amounts of money are involved.
C)on people already committed to the lobbyist's policy position.
D)when the lobbyist uses pressure tactics.
E)when the lobbyist starts crying and pleading.
Q4) Are PACs helpful or harmful to American democracy? Explain.
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Chapter 11: Congress
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Q1) Is Congress representative?
Q2) According to the Constitution,once impeached,federal officials are then tried in the A)Supreme Court.
B)House.
C)Senate.
D)Department of Justice.
E)United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Q3) The filibuster allows a minority to defeat a majority.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The goal of advertising for members of Congress is visibility.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Most of the turnover in Congress results in vacated seats.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Senate rules provide for unlimited debate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: The Presidency
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Q1) What duties does the president's press secretary have? How does the press secretary's role shape the relationship between the presidency and the press?
Q2) The president alone extends diplomatic recognition to foreign governments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The National Security Council
A)links the president's key foreign and military policy advisors.
B)is composed of the heads of the three branches of the armed services and makes recommendations to the president on combat strategy.
C)was established by President Roosevelt to manage foreign and domestic intelligence operations.
D)was created by legislation to keep the president informed on foreign affairs.
E)helps the president make policy on such matters as inflation and unemployment.
Q4) What is the president's cabinet and what are its purposes? What are the major agencies that make up the cabinet?
Q5) What is the role of the president as the nation's chief diplomat?
Q6) What is the veto power? How and why do presidents use the veto?
Q7) What is meant by presidential coattails,and how effective are they?
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Chapter 13: The Federal Bureaucracy
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Q1) Identify,describe,and give examples of the implementation functions of bureaucracies.
Q2) Most Americans
A)are generally satisfied with the help they receive from bureaucrats.
B)dislike bureaucrats.
C)actually like bureaucracies.
D)would like to work for a bureaucracy.
E)describe most bureaucrats as unwilling to serve their clients' interests.
Q3) The ________ Act was passed partly as a memorial to the memory of President James Garfield,who was assassinated in 1881.
A)Pendleton Civil Service
B)Treason
C)Voting Rights
D)Hatch
E)Interstate Commerce
Q4) Hiring and promotion based on political reasons rather than on merit or competence is called patronage.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List the three elements contained in all bureaucratic regulation.
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Chapter 14: The Federal Courts
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Q1) What is the difference between judicial activism and judicial restraint?
Q2) Studies of Supreme Court decisions have found that
A)the Court prefers to base its decisions on the Constitution rather than narrower and more contentious technical grounds.
B)the Court is usually out of line with public opinion.
C)there is no correlation between public opinion and Court decisions.
D)the Court is normally in line with popular majorities.
E)the Court renders fewer decisions in election years.
Q3) The Court of Claims is a
A)district court.
B)state court.
C)legislative court.
D)constitutional court.
E)presidential court.
Q4) In what ways do interest groups try to influence the courts?
Q5) The purpose of diversity of citizenship cases is to protect against possible bias of a state court in favor of a citizen from that state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Congress,the President,and the Budget: the
Politics of Taxing and Spending
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Q1) Large budget deficits can constrain government,for example,as fear of increasing national debt limited President Obama's proposal for health care reform.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A budget is
A)a blueprint for what the government should do.
B)a policy determination of how much to spend.
C)a policy document allocating burdens (taxes)and benefits (expenditures).
D)passed by the president's cabinet.
E)None of the above is true.
Q3) How does the public sector in America compare with the size of the public sector in other western nations?
Q4) Social welfare expenditures now exceed expenditures on national defense.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The total federal debt is about $15 million.
A)True
B)False
Q6) What expenditures make up the bulk of federal spending?
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Chapter 16: Social Welfare Policymaking
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Q1) The government spends more on the ________ than on the ________.
A)military; civilians
B)youth; elderly
C)men; women
D)nonpoor; poor
E)noncitizens; citizens
Q2) All social welfare policies are means tested.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One-third of American wealth is held by the wealthiest 1 percent of the population.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The government spends far more on ____ than on _____.
A)defense; Social Security
B)Social Security; the poor
C)the poor; defense
D)the poor; the middle class
E)food stamps; defense
Q5) How do Americans view responsibility for social welfare?
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Chapter 17: National Security Policymaking
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Q1) How has United States foreign policy contributed both to the nuclear arms race and to efforts to reduce nuclear weapons? Does it appear that we are heading for further reductions or for a new arms race?
Q2) Ronald Reagan warned that the Russians had sealed off Eastern Europe with an "iron curtain."
A)True
B)False
Q3) Karl von Clausewitz called war a "continuation of politics by other means."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Conservatives,critical of government spending in general,advocate for decreases in defense spending.
A)True
B)False
Q5) International economic policies today tend to emphasize
A)high tariffs and protectionism.
B)central planning and policymaking.
C)lower tariffs and freer trade.
D)heavy reliance on international economic organization.
E)free trade and protectionism.
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