Public Policy Analysis
Midterm Exam
Course Introduction
Public Policy Analysis explores the systematic evaluation of government policies and programs, focusing on the tools, methods, and approaches used to assess public issues and propose solutions. The course examines the policy cycle, including problem definition, policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation, while incorporating economic, political, and ethical considerations. Students learn how to employ quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques to assess policy effectiveness and efficiency, understand the roles of key stakeholders, and develop evidence-based recommendations for real-world policy challenges.
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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) Public health, education, clean air, and police protection are best described as programs
A)provided primarily at the local level.
B)historically provided at state and local levels before they were provided at the federal level.
C)exhibiting characteristics of public goods.
D)with considerable 'spillover" effects.
E)increasingly provided by nongovernmental organizations.
Answer: C
Q2) The classic management acronym POSDCORB is most closely associated with A) Max Weber
B) Henri Fayol
C) Henry Mintzberg
D) Peter Drucker
E) Frederick Taylor
Answer: B
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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) The Supreme Court in <i>Panamá Refining Co.versus Ryan</i> (1935) challenge the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which allow the president to prohibit transportation of certain oil products in interstate commerce.Another case the same year, <i>Schechter Poultry Company</i> versus United States, challenged the NIRA, which allow the president to approve "codes of fair competition" for the poultry industry.These two cases are most relevant to which of the following administrative law concepts?
A) administrative reconstruction
B) judicial review
C) delegation
D) deference
E) due process
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Relations
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Q1) The "new new federalism" is mostly closely associated with A) Bill Clinton
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Ronald Reagan
D) George W.Bush
E) Gerald Ford
Answer: C
Q2) Although there is no straightforward, universally accepted method for negotiating disputes between governments and organizations, some strategies do consistently seem to work better than others.Which of the following would experts LEAST likely recommend?
A)Conceive of interest narrowly
B)Change the parties involved in the bargaining
C)Change the existing organizational structure
D)If a memorandum of understanding needs to be prepared, you be the one to do it
E)Use objective criteria
Answer: A
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) What does Bok recommended we do about deception by government officials?
Q2) How might utilitarianism be made a little less theoretical so that the general ideas behind it could be incorporated into practical management decision making?
Q3) "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
Q4) The concept of due process is stated for the state courts in
A)the Fifth Amendment.
B)the Tenth Amendment.
C)the Fourteenth Amendment.
D)the Charter of the National Conference of State Attorneys General.
E)the Olmstead decision (1928).
Q5) Discuss the process of ethical analysis.
Q6) How does Aristotle think one finds happiness?
Q7) Define the public interest.
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Chapter 5: Planning
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Q1) Trustees of nonprofit organizations have all the following responsibilities EXCEPT
A)establishing fiscal policy and boundaries, with budgets and financial controls.
B)providing adequate resources for the activities of the organization through direct financial contribution and a commitment to fund-raising.
C)hiring a chief financial officer.
D)selecting, evaluating, and if necessary, terminating the appointment of a chief executive.
E)develop and maintain a communications link to the community, promoting the work of the organization.
Q2) Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the rational planning model.
Q3) The Delphi technique is an example of
A)structured decision making.
B)expert forecasting.
C)unstructured decision making.
D)crisis management.
E)qualitative forecasting.
Q4) Discuss the three stages of crisis management.
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Chapter 6: Decision Making
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Q1) Explain how the following pair of concepts might be helpful to an administrator framing a decision: (a) upper and lower limits of a decision and (b)limiting or strategic factors in decision making.Be specific.
Q2) Explain how the nominal group technique (NGT) works.
Q3) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making techniques.
Q4) The four steps in systems analysis seldom occur in perfect sequence; therefore, the system approach is highly
A)linear.
B)geometric.
C)integrated.
D)iterative.
E)isometric.
Q5) Which of the following best describes the changes in relative prices that occur as an economy adjusts itself to the provision of public service?
A)Compliance costs
B)Externalities and spillovers
C)Tangible and real benefits
D)Pecuniary benefits and costs
E)Opportunity costs
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Chapter 7: Organizing
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a principle of reinventing government?
A) catalytic
B) command-and-control
C) customer-driven
D) mission-driven
E) competitive
Q2) Besides the United States, which three countries were cited in the textbook for their efforts in reinventing government?
A)Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
B)Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
C)South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan
D)New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Australia
E)Germany, France, and Switzerland
Q3) What are the critical factors that determine the level at which a decision should be made with the in an organization?
Q4) According to the text, at least for critical questions must be addressed in designing an organization.What are they?
Q5) List the key features of a bureaucracy.
Q6) What do organization charts show? What are their limitations?
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Chapter 8: Leading
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Q1) Political scientist Fred I.Greenstein identifies which of the following qualities as key to effectiveness of presidents as leaders?
A)Communications
B)Emotional intelligence
C)Political skill
D)Vision
E)Cognitive style
Q2) Research on communication suggests all the following EXCEPT
A)consistency of messages by leaders is crucial.
B)style influences the effectiveness of managers.
C)memorable messages tend to he brief.
D)those who state their opinion early in a discussion are better able to have their opinion accepted than those who state their opinion in the middle.
E)stationery and signatures have more impact than electronic mail and faxes.
Q3) What can an administrator learned from Herzberg's satisfiers and dissatisfiers?
Q4) How might an administrator actually use Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Q5) What makes for effect each communication by a leader? Can you give recent examples of effective and ineffective communication by prominent political leaders?
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Chapter 9: Implementation
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Q1) How does backward mapping work?
Q2) Which of the following is NOT an aspect or step in case management?
A)Acquisition
B)Articulation
C)Screening
D)Prioritization
E)Scope definition
Q3) As Malcolm K.Sparrow shows in The Regulatory Craft, the main objective in ____________ is to leverage limited resources through careful planning, control, and targeting.
A) case management
B) compliance management
C) cutback management
D) the PDCA cycle
E) quality circles
Q4) Why do Pressman and Wildvasky think joint action in implementing public programs is so complex? Why does Eleanor R.Bowen disagree?
Q5) Explain how government uses the franchise arrangement to deliver services
Q6) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of government contracting.
Q7) Explain reengineering and discuss its limits.
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Chapter 10: Human Resources Management
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Q1) What are the defenses against charges of discrimination?
Q2) The major law enacted by Congress to protect employees from partisan political pressure and to prohibit all "executive officers"-other than political appointees-from taking any active part in political campaigns is known as the
A)Reorganization Plan of 1939.
B)Wagner Act.
C)Pendleton Act.
D)Hatch Act.
E)Civil Service Reform Act.
Q3) Discuss the relevance of the "big five" personality dimensions to recruiting and testing
Q4) The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 did all the following EXCEPT
A)split the Civil Service Commission into two units.
B)prohibit state employees from suing their employers in either state or federal courts.
C)establish an independent federal labor relations authority.
D)create a separate personnel system for the highest-ranking civil service officials.
E)restate and elaborate the merit principle.
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Chapter 11: Public Financial Management
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Q1) To make the budget process more flexible, the executive and legislative branches engage in certain compromises.Explain how the following compromises work: backdoor spending, reprogramming, transfers, and supplemental appropriations.
Q2) Distinguish between the following terms: budget authority, obligations, outlay, and cost.
Q3) Describe the four basic phases out the federal budget cycle.
Q4) Which of the following is NOT generally recognized as one of the pragmatic concepts with which a financial manager in the public sector should be acquainted when developing a tax system?
A) horizontal equity
B) vertical equity
C) tax efficiency
D) tax effectiveness
E) tax overlapping
Q5) How did the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act changed the federal budget cycle?
Q6) What is new performance budgeting, and what are some of the difficulties in making it work?
Q7) Discuss the various proposals to reform federal taxation.
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Chapter 12: Information Management
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Q1) Explain data mining.
Q2) You have friend scheduled to give an important presentation at the end of the week.Being relatively inexperienced in making such presentations, he asks you for some advice.What briefly would you say?
Q3) Which of the following points was not one of the "eight C's of communication"?
A) capability of audience
B) customer benefits
C) core competence
D) call to action
Q4) Define knowledge management.What are the key features of a knowledge management program?
Q5) The examples of Virtual City System in Boston, Optical Imaging Project in Miami-Dade County, and smart e-mail serve to illustrate how new technology can contribute to which phase of the information management process?
A) acquiring
B) processing
C) securing
D) accessing
E) presenting
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