What do we call the use of power by some to make decisions on behalf of others?

Which one of the following is NOT part of systems theory?

Systems theory focuses on the interaction between the organization and what?

Structure is the basic building block of what part of government?

When Congress enacts an authorizing statute creating an executive branch agencies it provides the legal authority and the agency's _____________.

According to James Q. Wilson the biggest challenge facing the federal bureaucracy is __________.

In which branch of the federal government is the federal bureaucracy primarily located?

Under the 1974 Budget Act, who decides how much a federal agency can spend?

Which of the following is a legislative function?

Who wrote the article that started the academic discipline of Public Administration?

In the later half of the 20th Century, Public Administrators were supposed to display ___________.

Most government employees are found in what part of the government?

What group comprises a plurality of the government workforce in America?

In a legal-rational system authority is associated with _____________.

Members of the federal bureaucracy are often viewed as delegitimate because they are___________.

Woodrow Wilson's demarcation of policy making and policy implementation is known as?

What theory of government was disrupted when people realized bureaucrats make policy?

Policy can never cover every ____ an administrator has to make.

Elected officials can assert ____________over the bureaucracy?

Efficiency was the hallmark of the ___________ movement

The Hawthorne Studies were known for starting what movement?

What do we call the structures of legal process and precedent that frames agreed-upon strategies for resolving complex social, economic, and political problems?

Woodrow Wilson believed the rule of law would protect citizens from what?

Separating administration from electoral politics is _________.

In the politics-administrative dichotomy the word "politics" means different things at different times, which was was NOT one of the definitions?

According to the book performance, politics, and accountability are all part of ___________.

How do process and power relate to public administration?

The ___ approach to bureaucracy is based on the idea of a wide-variety of competing interests?

What approach to bureaucracy is based on contracting out the work?

What happened to the federal bureaucracy during World War II?

During the Great Depression the federal bureaucracy___

In a system of administrative accountability, who holds elected officials accountable?

Who is responsible for holding public administrators accountable?

When laws lack the precision necessary for implementation, administrators have to exercise __________.

The APA lays out the __________ administrators must follow.

Other than the Attorney General, most members of the President's cabinet have what title?

Is the White House Press Secretary the cabinet?

What region of the country has the most local governments?

Who has the legal authority to charter a local government?

According to the text book, what is the biggest challenge facing America's government today?

Relative depravation theory explains social protests as a product of the difference between expectations and _______.

Weber wanted who to have full-time jobs based on technical merit?

Weber believed that public administrator's salaries should be beholden to _________.

According to the book, the President's job is to ________ the laws.

The President is sometimes referred to as the ___________.

Unitary Executive Theory (UET) is a theory of US Government that is currently embraced by which political party?

Unitary Executive Theory (UET) eliminates what type of agency?

What branch of government is discussed in the first article of the U.S. Constitution?

In which article of the U.S. Constitution is the President discussed?

What is the second largest group of public employees?

Which of the following ranks correctly in terms of size among public employee groups in the U.S.?

The key difference between public and private organizations, is that public organizations administer _________.

Public organizations are different from nonprofits because public organizations obtain revenue from _______

Public Administrators are tasked with __________ carrying out the law.

Which one of the following is not one of the three E's in public administration?

In government work, equity often competes against what value?

Special purpose districts are usually funded with what?

What do we call a government established for a particular function such as an airport or garbage collection?

The Pendleton Act of 1883 was adopted after which President shot?