GINT 370 Test 1 Study Questions

 Matching. You will be asked to match names and concepts with some type of identification. Some or all of the following will be on your test.

Multiple Choice: You will also have multiple choice questions. In some form, you can expect to see questions such as the following. Some questions not listed below may be included on your test, and some listed may not appear on your test.

18. The dominant values of the managerial approach to PA include what principles?

19. The dominant values of the political approach to PA include what principles?

20. Who is a prominent American frequently associated with the development of public administration as a field of study and the "politics-administration" dichotomy?

21. The scientific method, or rational scientific method, is the cognitive approach preferred by what approach to P. A.?

22. Individuals are viewed and treated as individuals in what approach to P. A.?

23. Adjudication is more widely used by which approach to P. A.?

24. What are the political sources of administrative growth in the U. S?

25. What are the managerial origins of the American administrative state?

26. What are overhead agencies and list examples of them.

27. The power of the president to control the administrative state are limited. What limitations are there?

28. What units compose the Executive Office of the President? A. White House office

29. Executive branch department heads/cabinet secretaries, assistant secretaries and other political appointees to executive agencies are usually referred to as what?

30. What are the tools used by Congress to deal with the federal bureaucracy?

31. How has the American judiciary responded to the American administrative state in recent years?

32. What premises provide the foundation for the new public management (NPM) approach to PA?

33. What types of governments are their in the American intergovernmental system? How many of each exist?

34. In the principle of federalism, where does political authority ultimately exist?

35. The constitutional protections to life, liberty and property for citizens of states and local governments have been achieved through what mechanisms?

36. The Usery, Garcia and most recently the Lopez Supreme Court cases reflect the dramatic affects on federalism of federal courts and their interpretation of what clause of the Constitution?

37. How would your text characterize the American federal system today? A. nation-centered

38. Who or what is a City Manager?

39. The most geographically comprehensive, general purpose form of local government in the U. S. with a wide range of functions is what type of government?

40. What is meant by the term executive budget?

41. Interstate relations today are vitally affected by what provisions of the U. S. Constitution?

42. What types of federal grants of funds to the states or local governments have been used in the U. S.?

43. The term "home rule" movement in the U. S. refers to what?

44. Federal mandates on state and local government became an issue in American intergovernmental relations when? Exactly what is a mandate? Why are they an issue?

45. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency is an example of what type of agency?

46.  What would be an example of a regulatory commission?

47.  What is a government corporation?

48.  What are the cabinet departments are the federal level of government?

49. Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Unemployment Insurance are examples of what type of programs that account for a large part of the federal budget today?

50. Most governmental entities in the U. S. are found at which level of government?

51. What is meant by the term regulatory federalism?