Deck 1: Public Interests

Question 1

Public administration is a study of a branch of government which:

A) manages public affairs day-to-day
B) executes public policy
C) is characterized by bureaucratic organization, standardized procedures, and specialization
D) all of the above

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What is "Public Administration" the study of?

A) principles of private management
B) management of public opinion
C) public bureaucracy
D) none of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

The skills emphasized in the study of Public Administration include:

A) public organization and management
B) public personnel administration
C) public budgeting & finance
D) all of the above are correct

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Bureaupathologies, or the destructive behavior patterns of large-scale organizations, may include:

A) goal displacement: as organizations mature the main goals are shunned in favor of self-serving ones
B) the iron law of oligarchy: the tendency of organizational control to evolve into oligarchies
C) the Peter Principle: all personnel are eventually promoted to their level of incompetence
D) all of the above are correct

Question 5

While the concept of ethics is derived from the Greek word ethos, meaning thought about right and wrong, the concept of morality is:

A) derived from the Latin word moralis or mores, meaning character or customs
B) generally concerned with a more particular aspect of general ethical systems
C) often used interchangeably with the concept of ethics
D) all of the above are correct

Question 6

As a theory of the public interests, the commons is associated with:

A) deontological ethics or rule-oriented principles that may be universally applied
B) utilitarian ethics or benefit-cost decisions in which the interests of participants are calculated
C) virtue ethics or character-based assessment of worthiness and goodness of a person's being
D) ethical egoism or the normative theory that one should always act in their own self-interest

Question 7

The concept of duties or principles of public interests, as used in the text, is associated with:

A) deontological ethics or rule-oriented principles that may be universally applied
B) utilitarian ethics or benefit-cost decisions in which the interests of participants are calculated
C) virtue ethics or character-based assessment of worthiness and goodness of a person's being
D) ethical egoism or the normative theory that one should always act in their own self-interest

Question 8

The specific approach to the public interests in which public servants take into account all affected persons in their decisions - not just select groups or self-interests - is known as the:

A) affordability principle
B) constitutional principle
C) universalizability principle
D) commons principle

Question 9

According to the ethics case study in the text (the FCC and the public interests), the Fairness Doctrine has ended in-practice in the USA and is no more. This statement is:

A) correct
B) incorrect
C) both of the above are correct
D) none of the above are correct