Public Budgeting and Finance
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Course Introduction
Public Budgeting and Finance explores the principles and practices involved in the allocation, management, and oversight of financial resources within the public sector. The course examines the processes of budgeting at various governmental levels, including budget preparation, approval, and execution. Students analyze fiscal policy, revenue generation, expenditure control, and the impact of public finance decisions on economic and social outcomes. Topics covered include budget reform, performance budgeting, government accounting, and financial reporting, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and ethical considerations in public financial management. The course equips students with critical skills necessary for effective decision-making and leadership in public sector financial administration.
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Managing the Public Sector 9th Edition by Grover Starling
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Chapter 1: The Nature of Public Administration
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a significant difference between the public and private sectors?
A)Absence of profit in the public sector
B)Size of operations in the public sector
C)Blurring of responsibility in the public sector
D)Higher visibility to the public in the public sector
E)Different incentives
Answer: B
Q2) Generally speaking, the founding fathers approach to public administration was
A) Washingtonian
B) Jeffersonian
C) Madisonian
D) Hamiltonian
E) Whiggish
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: The Political-Legal Environment of Administration
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Q1) Co-optation refers to
A)an important innovation in public housing.
B)iron triangles or subgovernments.
C)a process whereby an administrator gets a sense of other people.
D)the process of absorbing new elements into the leadership.
E)a mode of coordination used in coalitions consisting of disparate elements.
Answer: D
Q2) Opening formal government meetings to the public is an example of
A)sunset laws.
B)institutionalized citizen participation.
C)sunshine laws.
D)Executive Order 12875.
E)representative bureaucracy.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Relations
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Q1) According to Fisher and Ury, _______________ determine(s) the point at which you are prepared to walk away from the negotiating table.
A) a hard deadline
B) your BATNA
C) a variable sum
D) your NABTA
E) sunk costs
Answer: B
Q2) ______________________ grants are available across-the-board to all who are eligible in a category, while ______________________ grants are made only for specific purposes.
A) block grants and target grants
B) formula grants and innovation grants
C) formula grants and application grants
D) block grants and application grants
E) application grants and target grants
Answer: C
Q3) How do categorical grants differ from block grants?
Answer: not answered
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Chapter 4: Administrative Responsibility and Ethics
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Q1) How does Aristotle think one finds happiness?
Q2) Discuss some of the reasons some public officials deceive.
Q3) The text uses the contemporary US Border Patrol to illustrate which of the following concepts?
A) professional codes
B) citizen participation
C) importance of judicial control
D) representative bureaucracy
E) use of inspectors general
Q4) "Trust is a social good to be provided just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink." Who said that?
A) Sissela Bok
B) Philip K.Howard
C) Robert Redford
D) Sandra Day O'Connor
E) Ralph Nader
Q5) How might the concepts of product, price, promotion, and placement apply to the design of a customer-driven government program?
Q6) Define the public interest.
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Chapter 5: Planning
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Q1) What the forecasting methods are available to public administrators?
Q2) At the National Park Service, substantial increases in visitation drive up cost for many operations that directly support visitor activities, such as waste disposal; general maintenance and supplies; road, trail, and campground repair; employee overtime; and utilities.Additionally, staff are sometimes diverted from other activities to manage the increasing crowds. Based on the statement above, top management might want to turn to which forecasting technique as a planning aid?
A)Expert forecasting
B)Leading indicators
C)Modeling
D)Extrapolation
E)Delphi
Q3) The second step in strategic planning is to align activities, core processes, and resources.What exactly does this mean?
Q4) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the rational planning model.
Q5) Explain the difference between performance measurement and program evaluation.
Q6) Public administrators need to know the consequences of using different tools to implement policy.What tools are available? Which consequences are especially worth exploring?
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Chapter 6: Decision Making
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Q1) Sui generis problems are best defined as
A)problems associated with crises or life-threatening situations.
B)intractable problems that must be coped with rather than "solved."
C)one-of-a-kind problems.
D)cyclical problems.
E)short-lived problems.
Q2) Using the two tables above and a 12 percent discount rate, what would be the present value of the projects net benefits (that is, benefits minus costs)?
A)$43.5 million
B)$301.8 million
C)$100 million
D)$400 million
E)$71.2 million
Q3) What are the four basic steps in systems analysis?
Q4) List a few public sector decisions in which a decision tree might be helpful.Why?
Q5) Explain the importance of discounting in cost-benefit analysis.
Q6) Compare and contrast systems analysis to operations research.
Q7) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making techniques.
Q8) Explain how the nominal group technique (NGT) works.
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Chapter 7: Organizing
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Q1) According to the text, at least for critical questions must be addressed in designing an organization.What are they?
Q2) How does a matrix organization operate.What are its strengths and weaknesses?
Q3) Which of the following is NOT considered a disadvantage of the team approach?
A) conflicts and dual loyalties
B) over decentralization
C) failure to see the big picture
D) increased administrative overhead
E) increase cost of meetings
Q4) Weber identified three types of legitimate authority.What are they and how do they differ?
Q5) What are some of the reasons that governments reorganize?
Q6) The text identified two types of teams: cross-functional and permanent.Given example of each.
Q7) Defined a network organization and give an example.
Q8) Explain the sports metaphor that Keidel uses to describe the kinds of interaction, communication, and chemistry at work in certain organizations today.
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Q9) List and discuss some of the common characteristics of the reinventing government movement.
Chapter 8: Leading
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Q1) One study compared the importance of spoken words in communication to the importance of voice (pitch, tone, can break) and facial expressions.The study found that spoken words had a relative weight of:
A) 7%
B) 15%
C) 38%
D) 55%
E) 80%
Q2) Explained the significance of the Hawthorne studies.
Q3) The slacker sees others as lazy; the selfish person complains that others do not share; the administrator with low concern for people complains that no one seems to take an interest in him.These are all examples of
A) reversion
B) projection
C) reification
D) misinterpretation
E) syncretism
Q4) What leadership traits do you consider most important.Why?
Q5) What are factors foster group cohesiveness?
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Chapter 9: Implementation
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Q1) What is privatization?
Q2) Explain reengineering and discuss its limits.
Q3) What are the strengths and weaknesses of a management-by-objectives system?
Q4) List and briefly discuss some of the games Bardash sees occurring during implementation.
Q5) In The <i>Fifth Discipline</i>, Peter Senge explains
A) the dangers of micromanaging
B) the importance of expediters
C) the importance of seeing the whole
D) the importance of follow-up
E) ways of improving participative decision making
Q6) In The <i>Challenger Launch Decision</i>, Diane Vaughn suggests a mechanism she calls:
A) the mature team
B) escalation
C) normalization of deviancy
D) shifting the burden
E) limits to success
Q7) Compare and contrast the following three scheduling models: Gantt chart, CPM, and PERT.
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Chapter 10: Human Resources Management
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Q1) Traces the development of public personnel management in the United States from "government by a gentleman" to "government by shared power."
Q2) The two situations in which sexual harassment is illegal are:
A) radix malorum and adverse surroundings
B) quid pro quo and antagonistic conditions
C) quantum sufficit and adverse surroundings
D) quid pro quo and hostile environment
E) radix malorum and hostile environment
Q3) Impasse resolution procedures may combine these three activities:
A) refereed negotiations, fact-finding, and final offer selection mediation
B) final offer selection mediation, third-party intervention, and arbitration
C) mediation, full disclosure, and refereed negotiations
D) mediation, fact-finding, and arbitration
E) referee negotiation, full disclosure, and third-party intervention
Q4) According to Dresang, the major development in public personnel management since the 1950s "has been the emergence of multi-centers and multi-sources of power and influence affecting the management of public employees." Discuss fully.
Q5) What are the four steps that normally constitute the formal grievance process?
Q6) What did the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 do?
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Chapter 11: Public Financial Management
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Q1) Which of the following authors identified various strategies managers can and do use in the budget process?
A)Mice Rivlin
B)Mancur Olsen
C)Frederick Mosher
D)Aaron Wildavsky
E)J.B.Colbert
Q2) Explain the importance of cash management to state and local governments.
Q3) What is the difference between the budget deficit and the national debt? How big a problem is the federal deficit?
Q4) Discuss the pros and cons of the following six revenue sources: personal income tax; corporate income tax; property tax; a estate, inheritance, and gift taxes; sales tax; and user charges.Note: this question can be we formulated in a variety of ways.For example: "Discuss the pros and cons of the following two revenue sources ."
Q5) What are the three criteria a financial manager can use to evaluate his or her revenue options?
Q6) Discuss the ways in which policymakers simplify the budget process.
Q7) Discuss the various proposals to reform federal taxation.
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Chapter 12: Information Management
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Q1) In<I> Inside Bureaucracy,</I> Anthony Downs identifies several antidistortion factors in communication: (1) multiple internal information sources and overlapping responsibilities; (2) direct communication through hierarchical levels or elimination of such levels; (3) distortion-proof messages (e.g., summarization of details in nontechnical language with little jargon); (4) external sources of information; and so on. According to the text, few presidents followed Downs's recommendations more faithfully than
A)James Madison.
B)Harry S Truman.
C)Dwight D.Eisenhower.
D)Ronald Reagan.
E)Bill Clinton.
Q2) Explain the differences between the following kinds of information technology: executive information systems, decision-support systems, expert systems, groupware, human portals, and intranets.
Q3) What are the characteristics of useful information?
Q4) What role should the chief information officer (CIO) play in a government agency?
Q5) "Reason and instinct do not represent rival views of leadership." Explain.
Q6) Summarize Schein's views on organizational learning.
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