Public Administration

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3 characteristics of evolution of public personelle admin

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stronger leadership
political neutrality
public sector should mirror american society

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Fiscal Policy Tools

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Taxation--raising revenue for public service
National debt management--difference between amount gov spends and the tax income
Tax expenditure financing--loopholes

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3 most influential participants fiscal and tax

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president and council of econ advisors
House ways and means commtitee
Senate finance committee

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Types of budeting

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Line item--Single item
Performance--must see results
Planning Programing Budget PPB--broad program
zero base budget--justified each new period

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Steps of the budgetary process

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Preperation--study EXEC
Authorization- spending limit-LEG
appropriations--grant power LEG
Execution-spend money EXEC
Audit--Both

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Government raises revenues from..

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direct, indirect tax
user charges
grants
profits--generated by activities of public enterprise
borrowing--bonds or loans
Interest earnign from savings

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Program Evaluation---3 purposes

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learn program operations and effects
fix accountability
influence response to political decisions

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purpose of budget

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control bureaucracy
reflection of political priorities
financial intent

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facts

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state and local gov combined employ more than fed gov

education employs most

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portion of fedral budget that constitutes spending

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2/3 are privat
33% is gov spending

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program evaluation

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examination of government activities

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problems associated with program implimation

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management control
resistance to change
adjust to superior change...bosses
succeeded when administrators know whats important and objectives are clear

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Distributive policy making

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gov efforts to distribute benefite to some portion of the population EX infastructure, subsidies and gov insurance

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PERT

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Performance Evaluation and Review technique...lays out a detailed plan..steps and time line

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Policy analysis

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systimatic investigation of alternative policy options and the assembly and intigration of evidence for and against each

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4 policy analysis types

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issue analysis--specific policy choice and highly politicized
Program Analysis--both design and evaluation of program
Multi Program analysis--decisions must be made regarding resource allocation amoung programs dealing with same problem
strategic analysis--when policy problem is very large

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plannin and analysis

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process of deliberately defining and choosing the opperational goals of an orginization

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GPRA

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Government Performance and Results Act of 1993..shifted focus from program inputs to program execution
EX..mission statement goals, performance measure,, progress reports

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CzRM

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Citizen Relationship Management.. Focus on providing citizens timely, consistent, responsive access to government information and service...keep the citizen informed stream line info

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BUSH PMA President Management Agenda

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manage human capital, competitive outsourcing and priviatization, performance evaluation. top down

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Clintons NPR National Performance Review

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do more with less..restructure
performance budgeting
efficency. bottom up structure

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Reinventing government

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apply private techniques to the public sector.. customer first!

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National Performance Review
NPR

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down size and eliminate fluff. be the best in business. give public administrators incentives and tools to manage there agencies

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National Partnership for Reinventing Government NPRG

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partnership with high impact agencies.. FAA, FEMA, OSHA
Technology is being used to cater to customers

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New Public Management NPM

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all human behavior is motivated by self interest..specifically profit maximization

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New Public Service NPS

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People are motivated to better society

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Benchmarking

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quality and productivity improvement methodology that examines those orginizations that are best at performing something and take that and adapt it to there program

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Social Regulation

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pressure to regulate. pressure steamed from demands that abusive practices of large firms needs to be brought under control

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Federal Register

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where proposed rule making and proposed rules are published

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Administrative Law

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law governing legal authority of administrators to do anything that affects private rights and obligation..

limits authority, in opposition to the public interest. gives power

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Administrative regulations

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related to private sector and agencies or orginizations related to private sector

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Executive Order 10988

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JFK Organize and bargain collectively to all national governmnet employees

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Overhead Democracy

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majority control through political representatives who supervise administrative offers responsible and loyal to their superiors for carrying out the will of elected representatives

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2/3 of federal gov spending is for

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entitlement spending

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Patronage

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selection of public office on the basis of political loyalty rather than merit

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Merit

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selection based on qualification

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Ascriptive criteria

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personal judgements based on atributes or characteristics

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Achievement-oriented criteria

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personal judgement based on job competence

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PART

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Performance Assessment Rating Tool....Scorecard used to rate federal executive agencies

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Claim and Blame Strategy

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Politicians "Blame" bureaucrats and bureaucrats "Claim" not that they have the authority to act

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Rule Making

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Quasi-legislative power rule represents an agency statement of applicability and future effect that concerns the right of private parties and has the force and effect of law

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Ajudication

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Quasi-judicial power in which agencies apply existing laws to a paticular situation

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The reglatory agency, located in the US department of Labor responsible for assuring safe and healthful working conditions for private sector workers?

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OSHA

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Beginning with the ---------- the national government began exercising primary responsibility for controlling and promotin economic activity

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the new deal

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The-------- is currently responsible for managing the national government personel system

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OPM office of Personnel management

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What is not a major contributing factor to the governments HR crisis?

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Disappointment with affirmative action programs

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Which is not an example of ascriptive criteria?

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Partisan affiliation. affirmative action, veteran's preference, napotism....they all are!!!

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which of the following is not a period of civil service?

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government by intelligent