Public Administration Test Preparation
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Public Administration is the study of the theories, principles, and practices that guide the management of public organizations and the implementation of government policies. This course explores the structures and functions of public agencies, the role of public servants, and the relationship between government and citizens. It examines key topics such as policy formulation, organizational behavior, budgeting, ethics, and accountability in the public sector. Students will analyze contemporary challenges facing public administration, including public service delivery, transparency, and the impact of globalization and technology on governance.
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An Introduction to Government and Politics A Conceptual Approach 9th Edition by Brenda
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Chapter 1: Government and Politics
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Q1) An explicit agreement among political parties to divide up the seats in cabinet when no single party has a majority of seats in the elected legislature is called a
Answer: coalition
Q2) According to Harold Lasswell,politics is the distribution of all of the following EXCEPT:
A) wealth
B) government
C) safety
D) recognition
Answer: B
Q3) In the merger of two political parties,what would most likely be the necessary first step?
A) Formation of an organizational coalition.
B) Formation of a personal coalition.
C) Formation of an electoral coalition.
D) Formation of a new party.
Answer: B
Q4) The Roman equivalent of the polis was the ________. Answer: civitas
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Chapter 2: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority
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Q1) What is the only thing that ordinary citizens living under a legitimate government are permitted to use violence for?
A) overthrowing the state
B) protecting their property
C) defending themselves
D) settling disputes
Answer: C
Q2) Which term best describes governmental power when it is wielded legitimately?
A) Elections
B) Influence
C) Agreement
D) Authority
Answer: D
Q3) What is authority as a form of power based upon?
A) citizens' respect for the source of the command
B) citizens' fear of punishment
C) citizens' desires to obey the law
D) citizens' hope for an ordered society
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Sovereignty, State and Citizenship
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Q1) Who was the sixteenth-century author who first used the term sovereignty in its modern sense?
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B) Max Weber
C) Jean Bodin
D) William Blackstone
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following elements constitute the common definition of a state?
A) sovereignty, society, territory
B) provinces, territories, sovereignty
C) people, sovereignty, territory
D) sovereignty, territory, government
Answer: C
Q3) What is the main principle underlying the modern British constitution?
A) the personal sovereignty of the monarch
B) the judicial sovereignty of the courts
C) the sovereignty of a political institution made up of elected representatives
D) popular sovereignty
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Nation
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Q1) Which term best describes North and South Korea?
A) binational states
B) bistate nations
C) multi-state nations
D) multinational states
Q2) Catalonia is a region in Spain where the inhabitants speak their own language and hold a separate cultural identity than the rest of the country.Catalonia would best be described as:
A) a nation-state
B) a substate nation
C) a civic nation
D) a state
Q3) If a leader wished to form a nation-state,what would be the best action to take?
A) Allow and encourage the practice of local religions in rural areas.
B) Allow strong, neighbouring powers to enter territorial bounds.
C) Maintain a strict class system to suppress less-wealthy individuals.
D) Enforce the use of one language within territorial bounds.
Q4) Why is it accurate to describe the Québécois as a substate nation rather than an ethnic group?
Q5) The nation,like the participatory state,is a product of modern ________ history.
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Chapter 5: Political Culture and Socialization
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Q1) Define and explain the importance of social capital.
Q2) Canada,the United States,and France could be described as _____________ political cultures,while Rwanda and Bosnia could be described as _____________,and Cuba is _____________.
Q3) What does political socialization involve?
A) attempts by the state to take over private property
B) the rejection of political culture
C) the emergence of the welfare state
D) the transmission of political culture from generation to generation
Q4) Post-materialists suggest that more recent generations are concerned with self-fulfillment and self-expression,whereas older generations are more concerned with physical and economic security.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define and explain the importance of multiculturalism.
Q6) _________ are people who are more concerned with economic and physical security._________ are more concerned about self-fulfillment and self-expression.
Q7) The part of culture having to do with government and politics is referred to as
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Chapter 6: Law
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Q1) A purely personal rule of conduct is usually called a statute.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Given the use of doctrine of stare decisis in Canada,which of the following scenarios is LEAST likely to occur?
A) A speeding driver on a country road hits and kills three sheep. The farmer's defence lawyer uses arguments from a case from England about sheep bandits in 1675 to sue the driver.
B) A Supreme Court decision angers Canadians. After days of civilian protests, the Supreme Court decides to change the decision.
C) A female stowaway is found on a ship. While precedent states that the woman should be handed over to her closest male guardian, the court decides to grant her her freedom.
D) A case is lost at the Supreme Court. 20 years later a group of lawyers try to win the case again, but lose a second time despite complete change in Supreme Court judges.
Q3) Should the law lead or follow public opinion (or social change)?
Q4) What are the essential differences between customary law and legislation?
Q5) Compare the advantages and limitations of common law and legislation.
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Chapter 7: Constitutionalism
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Q1) In Canada,the Senate actually has what is called a suspensory veto,which means that if it does not agree to a constitutional amendment,then the amendment fails.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which term most accurately describes an unwritten constitution?
A) unamended
B) uncodified
C) understood
D) unratified
Q3) Which case is considered the foundational case on the rule of law in Canada?
A) Roncarelli v. Duplessis
B) Plessy v. Ferguson
C) Brown v. Board of Education
D) Marbury v. Madison
Q4) __________ is a form of peaceful protest where the aim is to be arrested
Q5) Define and explain the significance of recognized procedure.
Q6) The British constitution is considered to be an ________ constitution,while the American constitution is considered to be a ___________ constitution,and the Canadian constitution may be seen as a ______ of the two models.
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Chapter 8: Cooperation under Anarchy
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Q1) What was the logic behind the creation of the League of Nations?
A) A balance of powers would prevent the outbreak of war
B) States would cooperate to maintain peace
C) It would bring together nations with different political regimes
D) It would stabilize national economies after WWI
Q2) Which of the following is governed by both treaty law and international customary law?
A) right to resources located within 200 nautical miles of the coast
B) immunity of naval ships
C) passage through international straits
D) trade routes
Q3) The ___________ occurs where there is an unregulated,openly accessed,and commonly held _________ that is not owned by anyone.States have an interest in seeing a mutually beneficial international __________ fulfilled,but hope it can be achieved without their help.
Q4) What is the most important defining characteristic of international regimes?
A) They require cooperation between states
B) They require formal legal status
C) They require recognition by the UN
D) They require economic resources
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Chapter 9: Ideology
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Q1) Which idea goes against conservative thought?
A) human happiness on earth is the end goal
B) belief in God is not required to achieve happiness
C) humans have the ability to improve society
D) society is extremely complex
Q2) Which of the following ideologies cuts perpendicularly across the left-right dimension?
A) communism
B) socialism
C) conservatism
D) feminism
Q3) Which of the following ideologies does NOT assume that people wish to change society?
A) conservatism
B) liberalism
C) socialism
D) feminism
Q4) Liberty,fraternity,and equality were the slogans of the American Revolution.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Liberalism
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Q1) Who was the author of Principles of Political Economy,which supported free trade and open competition?
A) John Locke
B) Adam Smith
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Stuart Mill
Q2) Compare the ideas of any two of the major thinkers who were proponents of the liberal ideology.
Q3) Almost everyone in the Western world pays lip service to the four principles of liberalism.What does this mean for the study of ideology?
A) Acceptance of the four principles may not be a sufficient means of distinguishing liberalism from other ideologies.
B) Liberalism makes other ideologies obsolete.
C) The study of ideology is spreading with Westernization.
D) Liberalism is only relevant in the West
Q4) The classical liberal idea of government has been caricatured as the ____________ state,as merely the caretaker of society.
Q5) Are the ideas of J.M.Keynes relevant today?
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Chapter 11: Conservatism
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Q1) Why is conservative doctrine harder to explain than other ideologies?
A) it is newer and less articulated
B) it is always changing
C) it is older and less relevant
D) it is extremely complicated
Q2) Which combination was Edmund Burke in favour of?
A) private property and a redistributive state
B) private property but not a redistributive state
C) no private property but a redistributive state
D) neither private property nor a redistributive state
Q3) Which of the following ideologies is the most similar to classical liberalism?
A) Burkean conservatism
B) social conservatism
C) libertarianism
D) Red Tory conservatism
Q4) Whatever their differences,conservatives all revere the social order as more important than the individual.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define and explain the significance of Red Tory conservatism.
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Chapter 12: Socialism and Communism
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Q1) A form of common ownership in which workers own their own factories is called __________.The transition to a market economy from a fully planned one is called
Q2) What is the most fundamental difference between socialist thought,and modern social-democratic parties?
A) Socialist thought promotes equality of result, whereas social democratic parties focus on equality of opportunity.
B) Socialist thought relies on revolutionary reform whereas social democratic parties respect constitutionalism.
C) Socialist thought calls for an end to the market economy, whereas social democratic parties try to use the market to achieve their objectives.
D) Socialist thought calls for deregulation, while socialist parties seek nationalization of resources.
Q3) According to Lenin,why had capitalism not yet spent itself,as Marx predicted?
A) Overproduction was overcome by imperialist expansion.
B) Capitalism had found the solution to all its problems.
C) Overproduction would never occur.
D) Overproduction was never a problem.
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Chapter 13: Nationalism
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Q1) Who wished that Canada would become "a truly pluralistic and polyethnic society."
A) George Grant
B) René Lévesque
C) Pierre E. Trudeau
D) Brian Mulroney
Q2) An attempt to unify into one state fragments of territory that are part of another state on the grounds that they constitute an historical part of the nation is called
Q3) Unlike the others,nationalism is a single ideology.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Jewish experience in Europe and Russia is an example of oppression of minorities.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The creation of an empire is called ___________.The movement to gain or regain sovereignty from empire is called ___________ liberation,or simply ___________.
Q6) Compare civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism.
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Chapter 14: Feminism
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Q1) What is the main point of disagreement between liberal and Marxist feminists?
A) the need for political equality
B) the need for legal equality
C) a woman's role in the family
D) the history of female oppression
Q2) Which of the following statements would Robert Owen agree with?
A) Men and women are equal by nature
B) Men and women are unequal by nature
C) Men and women are unequal because of social influences
D) Men and women are equal because of legal advancements
Q3) Compare and contrast any three of the following authors regarding their feminist theories: Wollstonecraft,Mill,Fourier,Marx,Engels,Friedan,Millet,Brownmiller,Firestone.
Q4) Which author did NOT write that the family made women into domestic slaves?
A) J.S. Mill in his Subjection of Women (1869)
B) Karl Marx in his German Ideology (1845)
C) Friedrich Engels in his The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)
D) Mary Wollstonecraft in The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Q5) Define and explain the significance of radical feminism.
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Chapter 15: Environmentalism
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Q1) What does conservationism seek to do?
A) establish national parks and protect wetlands
B) manage natural resources and foster sustainable development
C) encourage recycling and a reduction in resource demands
D) protect endangered species
Q2) What are the differences between conservationism and deep ecology? Are they at odds with each other?
Q3) What is one of the things that proponents of animal liberation support?
A) the use of laboratory animals in finding cures for human diseases
B) the raising of animals for food
C) using guide dogs to help the blind
D) hunting by aboriginal peoples
Q4) According to one school of thought,a problem such as air pollution arises because no one owns the atmosphere,so they say it should be privatized like other forms of private property.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The 1872 Yellowstone Park Act and the 1885 creation of Banff National Park are examples of ______________.
Q6) In ______ the first ___________ was founded in New Zealand as the Values Party.
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Chapter 16: Classification of Political Systems
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Q1) Which statement best reflects Aristotle's views on property?
A) People should have no property at all.
B) Citizens should have moderate and sufficient amounts of property.
C) Property should be abolished altogether.
D) The state should own all property.
Q2) Which characteristic of modern society would make it exceptionally difficult for a philosopher-king to rule?
A) People are more concerned with their individual well-being than the common good.
B) People are less likely to voluntarily follow a ruler.
C) There are many competing ideas about what the common good entails.
D) Political communities are much larger today.
Q3) In his The Republic,Plato's word for a man so pre-eminent in wisdom and moral virtue that he could rule by personal judgment rather than by constraint of law:
Q4) Explain the distinction in the classical typology between lawful and lawless government.
Q5) According to the classical typology,a regime in which a few rule in their own private interest,and who exploit the majority,is called_______________.
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Chapter 17: Liberal Democracy
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Q1) Which of the following aspects of a democracy would be recognized both by Aristotle and contemporary students of political science?
A) limited state
B) rule of the many
C) protection of rights
D) rule of the law
Q2) Which term refers to a system of interests that are recognized or licensed by the state according to its dictated or recommended hierarchy?
A) corporatism
B) consociationalism
C) pluralism
D) polyarchy
Q3) Which statement about corporatism is NOT true?
A) It is confined to dictatorial systems.
B) The components of the political process are arranged in a hierarchy.
C) The components of a corporatist political process are not equal.
D) The components of the political process are dependent on the state.
Q4) An infallible test for political freedom in liberal democracies is the legitimacy of
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Chapter 18: Transitions to Democracy
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Q1) A number of commentators have suggested a connection between democracy and economic development.Compare and contrast their views.Include the ideas of Amartya Sen and Hernando de Soto's arguments in his The Mystery of Capital.
Q2) According to authors such as Larry Diamond and Iris Marion Young,which of the following is NOT necessary in the transitional process or in a full-fledged practising democracy?
A) a strong civil society
B) democratic dialogue
C) state institutions
D) an educated elite
Q3) Define and explain the significance of economic development in the transition to democracy.Why might new democracies struggle with this aspect of democratization?
Q4) The only peaceful method through which citizens can change their government is free and fair _______.It is another crucial component of democratic _______.
Q5) There are four crucial components to democratic transition: constitutions and the ____________,free and fair___________,strong and viable ___________,and
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Chapter 19: Autocratic Systems of Government
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Q1) What does the term "statism" refer to?
A) the long-term presidency of a dictator
B) the state as the principal instrument in expanding the economy
C) the control of the supreme court by the people
D) the control of the media by the state
Q2) There are many differences between liberal democracies and authoritarian regimes.In which of the following points do the two regimes differ the most?
A) economy
B) constitutionalism
C) civil society
D) ideology
Q3) Totalitarianism has been described as a "syndrome" or "pattern of interrelated traits."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Is there a trade-off between democracy and economic development? Is there any evidence for the "efficient authoritarian" hypothesis?
Q5) Discuss Hannah Arendt's observations on totalitarianism.Provide examples that illustrate her views.
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Chapter 20: Parliamentary and Presidential Systems
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Q1) In Canada,which functions are performed by the head of state?
A) assenting to legislation, dissolving parliament, selecting the Speaker of the House
B) assenting to legislation, dissolving parliament, choosing the cabinet
C) dissolving parliament, choosing the cabinet, selecting and dismissing the prime minister
D) assenting to legislation, dissolving parliament, selecting and dismissing the prime minister
Q2) A government in which two or more parties work together and divide ministerial appointments between them is called a _____________ government.
Q3) Presidential systems of government are characterized by the separation of powers,but a more apt description would be separated institutions sharing powers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The fusion of powers is characteristic of parliamentary models of government.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How does the separation of powers work in the American system of government?
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Chapter 21: Unitary and Federal Systems
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Q1) Which comparison of the American and Canadian written constitutions is correct?
A) In Canada, residual powers go to the provinces; in the U.S., they go to the states.
B) In Canada, residual powers go to the provinces; in the U.S., they go to the federal government.
C) In Canada, residual powers go to the federal government as they do in the U.S.
D) In Canada, residual powers go to the federal government; in the U.S., they go to the states.
Q2) In Canada,the lieutenant governor of a province can refuse royal assent to a bill and refer it to the federal Cabinet for a final decision.What is the term for this?
A) disallowance
B) judicial review
C) reservation
D) consultation
Q3) Is the European Union an example of confederation? If not,what is?
Q4) By definition,Canada is an example of confederation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The Political Process
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Q1) The Liberal Party of Canada announces that any Canadian Citizen can vote in the party's upcoming leadership race.What is this an example of?
A) a formal-legal institution facilitating political participation
B) The transition from a formal-legal to an informal organization
C) an informal institution facilitating political participation
D) The transition from an informal to a formal-legal organization
Q2) The political process is either comprehensive systemic,or "problem oriented."
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to Almond and Powell,what are the six most important elements of the political process?
Q4) Informal institutions of government include the Governor General and the Royal Canadian Mint.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Almond and Powell pointed to six important __________that carry out necessary_________ of the political process.
Q6) Define what is meant by the four types of law and policy.List one example from each type.
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Chapter 23: Interest Groups and Political Parties
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Q1) Political parties are very old,dating back to the Greek polis.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT necessarily a benefit of the two-party,or two-party plus,systems?
A) Government stability is more likely.
B) In systems with confidence votes, fewer elections will be caused by non-confidence votes.
C) Parties will incorporate numerous interests into their platforms.
D) Legislation will be debated and compromises will be made between conflicting interest groups.
Q3) In your opinion,are political parties or interest groups more effective means of political participation? Why?
Q4) According to LaPalombara,a political party is actually an informal organization.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What makes an interest group powerful? Why are some groups more influential than others?
Q6) Define and explain the significance of political consultants and lobbying.
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Q1) The rise of large communications corporations combining newspapers,radio,television,and Internet is a phenomenon often called ________.
Q2) Which of the following examples is NOT included in communications media?
A) conversations between friends
B) iPods, MP3 players
C) print media
D) television and radio broadcasting
Q3) According to David Taras,one of the reasons why the current media universe is depriving Canadians "of vital information they need to make decisions about their communities and their lives" is the dominance of left-wing bias in the Canadian media.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which term refers to the selective portrayal of certain pieces of information that shapes public opinion on a specific issue?
A) investigative journalism
B) reporting
C) priming
D) convergence
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Chapter 25: Elections and Electoral Systems
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Q1) Which of the following countries has a proportional representation system of election?
A) Canada
B) France
C) United States
D) Netherlands
Q2) In a list system of voting,the elector votes for individuals,not for political parties.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Does Canada's electoral system need to be reformed? If yes,why,and with what would you replace it? If not,why not?
Q4) Which term refers to a geographic district that has an elected representative?
A) plurality
B) party
C) constituency
D) runoff
Q5) There are three broad types of electoral systems: majority/____________,________,and _________.
Q6) Which electoral system provides the most accountability to the voters,and why?
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Chapter 26: Representative Assemblies
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Q1) Which term is commonly used to refer to a representative assembly?
A) government
B) legislature
C) chamber
D) executive
Q2) There are several ways representation works in politics.Which of the following is NOT one of those ways?
A) It can have symbolic importance
B) It can empower an individual to act on behalf of a group
C) It can legitimate the political process by including all groups of society
D) It can ensure that laws are formed and passed with the consent of the citizens.
Q3) One of the main functions of representative assemblies is to provide opposition to the government of the day.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What are the most important functions of parliament in the Canadian parliamentary system?
Q5) Are representative assemblies in decline?
Q6) Define and explain the significance of a representative assembly.
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Chapter 27: The Political Executive
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Q1) Does the increased size of government in the welfare state justify an increase in the number of cabinet ministers? In your response,consider the role of so-called central agencies and the reasons for ministerial appointments.
Q2) In Canada,the management of the government's business involves a number of so-called central agencies,of which four are particularly important: Department of ___________,the ___________ Board,and two staff organizations,namely,the ___________Office and the ______________ Office.
Q3) According to the doctrine of ministerial responsibility,a minister should resign when there is a serious problem in his department.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is the MAIN function of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO)?
A) to convey information from the bureaucracy to the prime minister
B) to choose the cabinet
C) to carry out political functions for the prime minister
D) to keep an eye on the opposition's policy proposals
Q5) In parliamentary government,the group that includes,but is not limited to,cabinet members is called the _________.
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Chapter 28: The Administration
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Q1) Identify some of the possible problems with bureaucracies in modern liberal democracies.How can the public service be reformed?
Q2) What is the function of regulatory agencies?
A) to manage Crown corporations
B) to attempt to impose public policy on the market without resorting to public ownership
C) to ensure proper management of private and Crown corporations
D) to establish the rules of international trade
Q3) Which term refers to business enterprises owned and operated by the government?
A) regulatory agencies
B) Crown commissions
C) Crown corporations
D) ombudsmen
Q4) Compare and contrast the underlying principles of public and private bureaucracies and their tendency towards growth.
Q5) Deputy ministers are career civil servants who have reached the apex of the bureaucracy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 29: The Judiciary
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Q1) Which statement about decisions made by the International Court of Justice is true?
A) They are binding.
B) They are not binding.
C) The International Court of Justice does not make decisions; it merely hears disputes.
D) They are made regularly and followed consistently by all parties.
Q2) Which of the following scenarios would the principle of "equality before the law" be compromised the most?
A) The legislature has the option, under specific circumstances, to ignore the courts.
B) Judicial discretion is tolerated to a certain extent, allowing judges to give different punishments for the same crime.
C) A backlog of cases slows down the judicial process significantly.
D) Supreme Court judges are appointed by each new president, much like members of the executive.
Q3) In the United States,there is a single unified system of court organization.
A)True
B)False
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