Exam 2: What Government Does And How It Does It

Briefly describe the meaning of "administrative responsibility."

Briefly describe how federal entitlement spending has grown since 1989.

State governments have primary responsibility for funding all of the following services EXCEPT ______.

According to the author, as of 2008, there were ____ contractors for every U.S.soldier supporting the United States in the Afghanistan War.

Governments at each level perform the same basic tasks.

In the last four decades, federal spending on ______ has increased but spending on _____ has decreased.

________ use(s) private sector experts and outside organizations to do government work.

Direct government includes the provision of goods and services, whereas indirect government emphasizes all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Which level of government spends the most on defense, space, and veterans' services?

Briefly describe the purpose of special-purpose governments.

Government by proxy and transfer programs are synonymous.

The federal government has primary responsibility for spending in all of the following areas EXCEPT ______.

Local governments tend to focus on__________; state governments tend to focus on _________; and the federal government tends to focus on __________.

When people think of public administration, it is usually about what?

According to the text, hospital care is primarily a __________ responsibility.

The text includes a discussion about Christopher C.Hood's comparison of public administration to a collection of tools.Briefly, what does Hood mean by this? What are the two distinct types of tools? Describe each and discuss a few specific examples of each in use.

Since the 1960s, the growth of government employees at the state and local level has ______.

According to the text, the absolute number of federal employees has grown substantially in the last 100 years.Based on this absolute figure alone, is it reasonable to assume that the size of government also has exploded? Why or why not? If there is a better approach to measuring this, please explain.

Most of the federal government's financial activity takes place through direct tools.