Public Administration Test Bank
Course Introduction
Public Administration is an academic discipline focused on the organization, management, and implementation of public policies and programs at various levels of government. The course examines the principles, structures, and processes that guide the functioning of public sector organizations, exploring topics such as bureaucratic theory, policy analysis, budgeting, ethics, and the relationship between elected officials and civil servants. Students will gain an understanding of administrative law, the role of public administrators in delivering services, and how effective governance can address societal issues. The course emphasizes both theoretical foundations and practical applications, preparing students for careers in government, non-profit management, and policy analysis.
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American Public Policy An Introduction 11th Edition by Clarke E. Cochran
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Chapter 1: Public Policy: An Introduction
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Q1) Public Policy is rooted in
A)Public statements
B)Official regulations
C)Law and in the authority and coercion associated with law
D)Widely accepted and publicly visible patterns of behavior
Answer: C
Q2) The three pre-policy stages are
A)(1) public protests, (2) congressional inquiry, and (3) committee report
B)(1) problem definition, (2) policy demands, and (3) agenda formation
C)(1) policy evaluation, (2) goal setting, and (3) cost-benefit analysis
D)(1) policy demands, (2) agenda formation, and (3) problem definition
Answer: B
Q3) Three reasons for studying public policy are:
A)policy adoption, implementation, analysis
B)policy advocacy, analysis, implementation
C)theoretical, practical, political
D)theoretical, analytical, political
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Contexts of Public Policy
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Q1) The sale of marijuana is legal in a number of states,but only California and Colorado allow recreational use.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 is an example of
A)Intergovernmental transfer of funds
B)Categorical grant
C)Cutting domestic spending
D)Devolving responsibilities to the State
Answer: D
Q3) The average American is becoming:
A)younger
B)older
C)more liberal
D)more traditional
E)submissive to authority
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The Economy: Changing Government-Business
Relationships
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Q1) The American Revolution was started in part because of
A)the British monarchy
B)religious differences
C)lack of development
D)financial grievances of the colonists
Answer: D
Q2) Microeconomics is concerned with
A)overall management of the economy
B)government regulation of specific types of business
C)control of the money supply
D)management of the national debt
Answer: B
Q3) Enterprise zones adopted during the Clinton administration provide the following benefits except for
A)reduced taxes.
B)tax credits.
C)increased regulations
D)technical assistance
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Economic Issues: Taxing, Spending, and Budgeting
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Q1) The use of monetary policy and fiscal policy are the federal government's two primary instruments of accomplishing macroeconomic goals and achieving economic stability.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Deficit spending without fueling inflation is possible through government borrowing.This approach was used by all recent presidents except for:
A)George W.Bush
B)Ronald Reagan
C)Jimmy Carter
D)Barack Obama
Q3) The Reagan Administration advocated a departure from Keynesian economics to engage in:
A)nationalization of some public services
B)supply-side economics
C)promoting an industrial policy
D)introducing antitrust policies
Q4) The terms "tax reform" and "tax cuts" refer to the same thing.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Energy and Environmental Policies: Policy Instability
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Q1) Natural gas does not
A)have a long history of regulation.
B)require much refining.
C)require a pipeline distribution network.
D)been wasted in the past.
Q2) Which of the following does not create health problems?
A)Unwillingness to exercise due to air pollution
B)Short term exposure to high levels of air pollution
C)Long term exposure to low levels of air pollution
D)synergistic interaction of air pollutants
Q3) Nuclear energy as a domestic power supply source was developed originally to power submarines?
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is not an impact of continued oil dependence?
A)Supply uncertainty
B)Demand volatility
C)Increased military and defense spending
D)Structural addition to trade deficit
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Chapter 6: Crime and Criminal Justice: Dilemmas of Social Control
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Q1) The overall percentage of regular drug usage for persons age 12 years and older has remained at ____ percent since 2002.
A)25
B)8
C)8.3
D)<1
Q2) Gideon v.Wainwright involved
A)the exclusionary rule
B)the required warning to suspects of the right to silence
C)the right to counsel
D)capital punishment
Q3) Contrary to expectations,death penalty states have higher mean homicide rates than non-death penalty states.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which amendment constrains the manner of execution?
A)1<sup>st</sup>
B)8<sup>th</sup>
C)4<sup>th</sup>
D)2<sup>nd</sup>
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Chapter 7: Poverty and Social Welfare Policy
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT an achievement of public assistance programs?
A)Most people are dependent on public assistance for many years
B)Public assistance has done much to alleviate the effects of poverty
C)Fraud in public assistance programs is minimal
D)Taken together, public assistance programs build a financial foundation under the poor
Q2) States Unemployment Insurance is supplement by the federal government during hard economic times.Benefits are extended to during the 2007 - 2009 Great Recession to A)26 weeks
B)69 weeks
C)99 weeks
D)73 weeks
Q3) Which of the following programs is NOT means-tested?
A)Temporary Assistance to Needy Families
B)Supplemental Security Income
C)Social Security
D)Medicaid
E)Food Stamps
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Chapter 8: Health Care: Transformation or Continued Crisis?
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Q1) Which of the following health care issue has broader coverage in other nations than the United States?
A)dental service
B)nursery homecare
C)eye glasses
D)cosmetic surgery
Q2) Among the consequences of a high rate of uninsured Americans are which of the following?
A)worse health outcomes
B)financial burdens on families
C)"job lock"
D)all of the above
Q3) The Supreme Court ruled that terminally ill people have no constitutional right to die and,therefore,no right to physician-assisted suicide.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Labor and technology is a primary contributor to the high cost of medicine. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Education: Conflict in Policy Direction
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Q1) The failure of a significant portion of the population to earn a high school diploma encourages the development of an undereducated minority class.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Multiculturalism
A)is at odds with the view of America as a "melting pot."
B)appeals to many cultural groups.
C)tries to establish an appreciation for the contributions of various ethnic groups.
D)all of the above
E)none of the above
Q3) The case in which the Supreme Court,in 1973,refused to equate inequities in property values and the resultant difference in educational expenditures with a violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was
A)Serrano v.Priest
B)San Antonio I.S.D.v.Rodriguez
C)Brown v.Board of Education
D)Plessy v.Ferguson
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Chapter 10: Legal and Social Equality: The Struggle against
Oppression and Bigotry
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Q1) The median income of women in the work-force,when compared with the male median,during the last 10 years
A)has remained the same.
B)has increased.
C)has declined.
Q2) The Augusta National Golf Club began admitting African-Americans members in
A)1954
B)1964
C)1990
D)2012
Q3) Oklahoma City Board of Education v.Dowell (1991)forced local school districts to continue implementing federal busing orders.
A)True
B)False
Q4) De facto segregation of schools was due to
A)discriminating housing patterns
B)tendency of ethnic groups to live together in the same neighborhoods
C)African American not being allowed to attend white schools
D)white schools being overcrowded
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Chapter 11: Immigration Policy: The Barely Open Door
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Q1) Over the past twenty years,an objective of United States immigration policy has been to
A)reduce the number of illegal immigrants
B)keep out immigrants from former communist nations
C)return to an open immigration policy
D)encourage emigration from Western Europe
Q2) American labor unions
A)strongly support increased immigration.
B)worry about immigrants taking low wage jobs from citizens
C)believe that large numbers of immigrants depress wages of union members
D)(b) and (c)
E)none of the above
Q3) In 1990 the ratio of foreign-born to the total population was the highest in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An unintended consequence of the National Origins Quota Act of 1924 was illegal immigration through Mexico and Canada.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Foreign and Defense Policy: Security and Interests in a Dangerous World
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Q1) The Cold War policy of resisting any further encroachment of governments labeled communist was ____________.
A)idealism
B)collective security
C)Nuremberg principles
D)containment
E)deterrence
Q2) Realists criticized United States involvement in the Vietnam War because
A)we didn't have sufficient national interests to warrant the cost in resources and manpower
B)it was unwinnable
C)it was a violation of the Monroe Doctrine
D)there is no common border with Southeast Asia.
Q3) Which of the following statements is true of classical diplomacy?
A)There is no universal self-evident principle of justice, right or wrong or truth that nations are morally obligated to pursue.
B)There is wide-spread public support for the policy of genocide.
C)The universal principle of justice is self-evident to all reasonable people.
D)It presumes that communism is a bad thing.
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Q1) Most abortions are performed in the third trimester.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The case which interpreted the establishment clause as requiring separation of church and state is
A)Everson v.Board of Education
B)Engel v.Vitale
C)Cantwell v.Connecticut
D)Lemon v.Kurtzman
Q3) The Supreme Court has ruled on the teaching of evolution in the public schools that:
A)a community cannot require the teaching of creationism
B)a community cannot require the removal of evolution from the curriculum
C)religious traditions about creation can be taught as part of the humanities curriculum
D)all of the above
Q4) The Supreme Court has decided that state property tax exemptions for church property violate the establishment clause.
A)True
B)False
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