NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Public Administration MCQs (Practice_Test 19 of 104)
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- Consider the following categories:
- The engineers
- The administrative generalists
- The technical generalists
- The scientists
- Which of these are components of Higher
- Civil Service in France?
- 1,2 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- 3 and 4
- Consider the following statements: Introduction of administrative reforms in France, in the recent past, has led to
- Simpler administrative system
- Decentralized and participative administrative system
- Rendering the administrative system re-inventive and adaptive to global⟋regional developments
- Helping administrative system establish a superior territorial authority⟋region
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- 2 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- Consider the following statements: Japan՚s Civil Service is characterized by
- Impartiality and anonymity
- Neutrality and legality
- Politicization and patronage
- Promotion by seniority and total quality consciousness
- Which of these are correct?
- Only 1
- 2 and 3
- 1,2 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- Who among the following described Public Administration as a subject matter in search of a discipline and said that there was no single dominant analytical paradigm in the field?
- L D White
- W F Willoughby
- Paul H. Appleby
- Dwight Waldo
- Consider the following statements: Public administration is different from private administration for it
- Has to provide socially essential public services
- Has to protect and promote public interest
- Is subject to public accountability
- Can show differential treatment to different people
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- 1 and 2
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2and3
- Consider the following statements: The imperatives of globalization for public management reforms include
- A push towards non-governmental sector.
- Empowerment of weak and women
- Re-invention of government
- Human resource development in developing countries
- Which of these are correct?
- 3 and 4
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- The Public Choice Model known as the paradigm of democratic administration was advocated by
- Vincent Ostrom
- Herbert Simon
- L D White
- Robert A Dahl
- Who among the following mooted the Minnow brook Conference of 1968?
- L D White
- Dwight Waldo
- Wamsley
- John Ruhr
- Consider the following statements: According to F. W. Riggs, Comparative Public Administration involves a shift from
- Normative to empirical
- Non-ecological to ecological
- Idiographic to homothetic
- Inter-disciplinary to intra-disciplinary
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- I and 2
- 1,2 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- The mercerization and privatization of public administration may result in
- Quasi-socialism
- Laissez faire
- Neo-Capitalism
- Liberalized regulations
- Consider the following statements: The New Public Management perspective
- Theorizes proactive participation of public-minded communities
- Emphasizes on inter-agency adhocracies
- Does not dismiss non-public administrative structures as extra legal
- Concentrates on existing institutions, organizations and bureaucracies.
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- 2 and 3
- 3 and 4
- 1,2 and 3
- Consider the following statements: In Public Choice Model, the organization of public services is strongly inclined towards
- Small-scale rather than large-scale enterprises in public service provision.
- Single all-purpose provider structures of public service rather than multipleprovider structures.
- User-charges rather than general tax funds as the basis of funding public services other than pure public goods.
- Private or independent enterprise rather than public bureaucracy as the instrument of service provision.
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- 2 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- Who among the following said that ‘in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence’
- Frederick W. Taylor
- Mary P Follett
- Peter F Drucker
- Laurence J. Peter
- Consider the following statements: Advantages of the principle of hierarchy are that it
- Enables to fix the responsibility at each level
- Leads to centralized decision-making at top level
- Provides a channel of command⟋communication
- Binds all units into an integrated whole
- Which of these is⟋are correct?
- Only 1
- 2 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- The principle of Unity of Command ensures
- Accountability
- Acceptability
- Specialization
- Co-ordination