The nature and approaches in public administration

Question 1

A
Distinguished Professor of Public
Administration at the School of Public Affairs
at American University in Washington, DC,
and is currently serving as Chair Professor of
Public Management, City University of Hong
Kong.

Answer 1

David H. Rosenbloom

Question 2

best known
for coming up with three approaches that
define the American foundation of Public
Administration: the managerial, political, and
legal.

Answer 2

David H. Rosenbloom

Question 3

Key areas include administrative decision-
making, managerial techniques, leaders, and employee

contributions.

Answer 3

managerial approach

Question 4

Discusses how the political officials oversee the
different administrative decisions. Politicians have the
final say on the laws that public administrators are
tasked with executing.

Answer 4

political approach

Question 5

a
principle stating that politics and administration should
remain separate in the public sector which was
developed by the Civil Service Reforms of the 1870s and
the 1880s.

Answer 5

Politics/Administration Dichotomy

Question 6

The ____was,
according to Rosenbloom, the most
crucial. The Rule of Law involves
orderliness, comprehension, and spells
out when and how tasks will be
completed.

Answer 6

Legal approach

Question 7

The relevance of the
profession to the practitioners and to
the public in catering to public good

Answer 7

occupational approach

Question 8

As a political science, PA is _____

“Public Administration is the totality of the
working day activities of all the world’s bureaucrats.”

Answer 8

what government does

Question 9

as political science public administration is _____

“Privatization has forced public administration to
take different forms.”

Answer 9

both direct and indirect

Question 10

as political science public administration is _______

“Public policy and public administration are two
sides of the same coin. One decides, the other does.”

Answer 10

a phase in the public policy-making cycle

Question 11

as political science public administration is _____

“The public interest may be presumed to be what
men would choose if they saw clearly, thought
rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.”

Answer 11

implementing the public interest

Question 12

as political science public administration is ____

“Public administration is the mature manifestation
of the community spirit.”

Answer 12

doing collectively that which cannot be so well done individually

Question 13

as a political science, public administration is (there are 5)

Answer 13

1. what government does
2. both direct and indirect
3. a phase in the public policy-making cycle
4. implementing the public interest
5. doing collectively that which cannot be so well done individually

Question 14

as a form of management public administration is (there are 3)

Answer 14

1. the executive function in government
2. a management specialty
3. art not science or vice versa

Question 15

as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____

“The administration of government…in its most usual and perhaps most precise signification…is limited to
executive details and falls peculiarly within the province of
the executive department.”

Answer 15

The Executive Function in Government

Question 16

as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____

“Management refers both to the people responsible for
running an organization and to the running process itself.”

Answer 16

A Management Specialty

Question 17

as a form of MANAGEMENT, PA is____

“The administration art is judgment, panache, and common sense.”

Answer 17

Art, not Science or Vice Versa