Exam 2: What Government Does And How It Does It

Red tape is generally considered a positive characteristic of public administration because it helps to ensure efficient execution of public provisions.

Total government employment has grown in proportion to the growth of the population.

Who argues that different levels of government concentrate on different services?

Compared to other nations, how does American government spending compare?

Which of the following is an example of a tax expenditure of the federal government?

How do states interact with other layers of government?

Entitlements are programs that benefit those individuals whom legislation has defined as eligible.

The growth of transfer functions emphasizes that different kinds of governmental programs require what kind of administrative approaches?

In the last two presidential administrations, Bush and Obama, Americans' trust in their government has ______.

Public administration rarely involves the inclusion of contracts to oversee the carrying out of activities that produce the results that contractors produce.This is because contractors are the experts and do not require oversight.

Which level of government spends the most on elementary and secondary education, and health and welfare?

Unlike federal spending, state spending patterns have ______.

Government by proxy includes all of the following tools EXCEPT ______.

The use of third-party agents to deliver programs that the government funds is ______.

Provide detail about the trends in federal spending over the last four decades.

Since the 1950s, the number of individual local governments has ______; most of these local governments are considered __________.

Since the 1950s, trust in government has ______.

What are government contracts? Are government contracts on the rise or decline?

What can significantly expand government's power while expending relatively little money?

Which level of government concentrates the most on the direct delivery of services?