Public Administration in America
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Public Administration in America by George J. Gordon and Michael E. Milakovich, Sixth Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s
ESSAY QUESTIONS, SET A
Discuss the contributions to the academic field of public administration made by the following individuals: Woodrow Wilson, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, Herbert Simon and Alan Altshuler.
Identify the key features of intergovernmental relations in contemporary American politics and discuss their significance. What major themes may be said to exist in contemporary intergovernmental relations?
Discuss the similarities between the Weberian bureaucratic model, scientific management, and the “principles” approach to studying public organizations. Describe the basis of each theory and its impact on the development of American public administration.
Briefly describe the principal “roles” of leadership. Which of these do you consider the most important? Which is the most difficult to carry out? The easiest? Explain your choices?
What are the traditional elements of public personnel administration? How do you think they differ from the private sector counterparts?
Define, compare and contrast incremental budget making, line item budgeting, performance budgeting, planning-programming-budgeting (PPB) and zero-base budgeting (ZBB). What are the features, advantages and disadvantages of each?
What are the basic democratic values that underlie our society? How have they changed in recent years? How have these changes affected public attitudes toward public administration?
What are the “crisis of confidence” and “crisis of legitimacy” in government? Is there anyway to resolve these crises? If so, how? If not, what are the implications fro the future of democratic government?
Discuss the contributions to the academic field of public administration made by the following individuals: Woodrow Wilson, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, Herbert Simon and Alan Altshuler.
In the earlier period of...
ESSAY QUESTIONS, SET A
Discuss the contributions to the academic field of public administration made by the following individuals: Woodrow Wilson, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, Herbert Simon and Alan Altshuler.
Identify the key features of intergovernmental relations in contemporary American politics and discuss their significance. What major themes may be said to exist in contemporary intergovernmental relations?
Discuss the similarities between the Weberian bureaucratic model, scientific management, and the “principles” approach to studying public organizations. Describe the basis of each theory and its impact on the development of American public administration.
Briefly describe the principal “roles” of leadership. Which of these do you consider the most important? Which is the most difficult to carry out? The easiest? Explain your choices?
What are the traditional elements of public personnel administration? How do you think they differ from the private sector counterparts?
Define, compare and contrast incremental budget making, line item budgeting, performance budgeting, planning-programming-budgeting (PPB) and zero-base budgeting (ZBB). What are the features, advantages and disadvantages of each?
What are the basic democratic values that underlie our society? How have they changed in recent years? How have these changes affected public attitudes toward public administration?
What are the “crisis of confidence” and “crisis of legitimacy” in government? Is there anyway to resolve these crises? If so, how? If not, what are the implications fro the future of democratic government?
Discuss the contributions to the academic field of public administration made by the following individuals: Woodrow Wilson, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick, Herbert Simon and Alan Altshuler.
In the earlier period of...