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Exam 2 Study Guide
The “doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of
1787, not to promote efficiency, but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary
power.”
A: certain amount of governmental friction is needed among the three branches of
government.
B: government efficiency is not the primary need in a democracy.
The typical outside forces impacting the head of a public agency?
a. judiciary
b. auditors
c. legislature
Machiavelli quotes
it is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose
that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the
wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope,
What does a sense of honor provides an individual with?
moral compass that determines right from wrong
The “dirty hands dilemma”
when public administrators perform a wrong act to further the public good.
When a high public official feels it necessary to not tell the truth
A royal lie
Why should public administrators understand the Constitution?
So that managerial a political approaches are compatible with constitutional principles
and values, that oaths to support the constitution may be more important than routine
administrative functions, and the public administrators may be personally liable for civil
damages if they act in contravention to the constitution.
How does Congress maintain oversight over public administration?
pgs. 215-217
Frederick W. Taylor.
pg.
247-248
Max Weber’s theory of the ideal type bureaucracy.
pg. 254
The PODSCORB principles
pg. 251
The “Butterfly Effect”
pg. 262
Group characteristics
pg. 282-283
Advantages of bureaucratic impersonality?
pg. 291
The Hawthorne experiments?
pg
295
Characteristics of Groupthink?
pg. 309-311
Osborne and Gaebler and reinventing government.
pg. 331
Measuring the productivity of any jurisdiction, organization, program or
individual is particularly problematic because of the problem of defining
outcomes
pg. 335
E Government has created the 311 approach for local government.
pg. 347-348
Self-Directed Work Teams
pg. 357
An organization’s planning horizon.
pg. 367
A SWOT analysis
pg. 370
Benchmarking
pg. 371
Sin taxes
pg. 383
The Bernie Madoff scandal
pg. 384-385
The primary difference between leadership and management
pg. 395
The “heroic” style leader
pg. 400
The “two presidencies phenomenon”
pg. 406
Civil service reform
pg. 419-420
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
pg 423
Public sector competitive outsourcing
pg 438
The book entitled
U.S. Government: Policy and Supporting Positions
pg 440
Giving special preference to honorably discharged military personnel
pg 441
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike
pg 451
The provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and its amendments
pg 474-475
“Y
ou do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and
liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race, and then say,’You are free
to compete with the others,’ and believe you have been completely fair
”
pg. 476
Nonracial discrimination
pg. 485-492
The word “sex” and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
pg 485
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