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Public Administration In India Politics — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Political Science & International Relations MCQs on Public Administration In India Politics — Part 1 with worked academic solutions for CSS, PMS, FPSC, PPSC, KPPSC.

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Question 1 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not one of the styles of leadership given by Likert?

Question 2 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

According to Peter Self, the study of public administration developed as an off shoot of which one of the following?

Question 3 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Taking an extreme view of the distinction between public and private administration, who said the all organisations share public and private features?

Question 4 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

"Government administration differ from all other administrative work to a degree not even at faintly realised outside, by virtue of its public nature, the way in which it is subject to public scrutiny and outcry". This statement was nade by:

Question 5 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following has criticised classical theory as 'homely proverbs, myths, slogans and pompous identities'?

Question 6 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

What are the factors that have contributed towards the growth of the study of Public Administration in the U. S. A. as a separate academic discipline? 1. Evaluation of the concept of walfare state 2. Scientific management movement 3. Industrialisation 4. Movement for government reform Select the corect answer:

Question 7 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following said that behaviour in administration should be studied through psycho-analysis?

Question 8 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Riggsian Agraria model is characterised by which of the following? 1. Clan-based organisation 2. Communalistic value 3. Impersonal human actions 4. Divine authority source Select the correct answer:

Question 9 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following considered the concept of delegation as a mere myth of organisational (administrative) theory?

Question 10 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Max Weber used the Greek world 'Charisma' to refer to 1. Qualities acquired by experience 2. Inherited qualities 3. Supernatural qualities 4. Super human qualities Select the correct answer:

Question 11 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

"Politics and Administration dichotomy is a misleading distinction which had become a stereo type in the winds of theorists and practitioner alike." Who said this:

Question 12 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following are the salient features of the New Public Management? 1. Empowerment of citizens 2. Disaggregation of public bureaucracy 3. Cost-cutting 4. Organisational centralisation Select the correct answer:

Question 13 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I (Books) List-II (Authors) a. Frontiers of Development Administration 1. Braibanti b. Political and Administrative Development 2. Ferrel Heady c. Bureaucracy and Political Development 3. Fred W. Riggs d. Public Administration : A Comparative Perspective 4. J. La. Palombara

Question 14 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not a base of organisation?

Question 15 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not a feature of Barnard's Theory of Formal Organisation?

Question 16 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not a formulation of Max Weber?

Question 17 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The Santhanam committee on prevention of corruption was appointed in:

Question 18 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The literature on new public administration lays emphasis on 1. Relevance 2. Values 3. Equity 4. Change Select the correct answer:

Question 19 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following said, "Like Physics or Chemistry, Administration is governed by principles"?

Question 20 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following approaches in the precursor of the Ecological approach?

Question 21 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Public Choice Approach' to public administration came into existence in the

Question 22 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Henry Fayol mentioned the following functions of administration. Put them in correct order. 1. Organising 2. Planning 3. Command 4. Control 5. Coordination Choose the correct answer:

Question 23 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following stages of evolution of public administration is called the era of politics administration dichotomy?

Question 24 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following was not supported by Taylor in his Scientific Management Theory?

Question 25 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Proverbs of Administration 1. Henry Fayol b. Principles of Management 2. Herbert Simon c. Functions of Executive 3. Morestein Marx d. Elements of Public Administration 4. Chester Barnard

Question 26 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following has created eighteen definitions of public administration and put them in four categories of political, legal, occupational and managerial?

Question 27 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I (Approach) List-II (Characteristic) a. Ecological 1. Legal-Rational b. Decision-Making 2. Negative Feedback c. Bureaucratic 3. Agraria-Industria d. General Systems 4. Fact-value Proposition

Question 28 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following was not in the list of functional requisites for any society, given by Fred W. Riggs?

Question 29 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

"All undertaking require planning, organisation, command, coordination and control, and in order to function properly, all must observe the same general principles". This statement was made by:

Question 30 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following thinkers advocated 'effective V communication' as a basic prerequisite for the attainment of organisational goals?

Question 31 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following statements are correct about development administration? 1. It is change oriented. 2. Its objectives are simple. 3. It is dynamic and flexible. 4. It is concerned with new tasks. Choose the correct answer:

Question 32 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not a staff agency in USA?

Question 33 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following gave the 4P-formula for Departmental Organisation?

Question 34 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reason (R) Select the correct answer: Assertion (A) Herbert Simon has ridiculed the Classical Theory of Organisation as a machine model theory. Reason (R) Classicists are too much preoccupied with the formal structural part of organisation and that too at the cost of human factors.

Question 35 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following is the creator of Zero-Based-Budgeting?

Question 36 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The post 1970 phase in the development of public administration was characterised by

Question 37 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following has not made a distinction between public and private administration?

Question 38 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Elton Mayo 1. Classical Theory of Orqanisation b. Henry Fayol 2. Scientific Management c. Nicholas Henry 3. Human Relations Theory d. F. W. Taylor 4. New Public Management

Question 39 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason(R) . Select the correct answer: Assertion (A) "The issue of decentralisation is more complex in concept and practice than is generally acknowledged". Reason (R) "The dual role approach to decentralisation is a kind of rehearsal of the area function dichotomy in a new setting".

Question 40 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R) . Select the correct answer: Assertion (A) According to Weber, comparative politics could be comprehended within the larger framework of culture, which he did by demolishing Marx's theory of economic determinism. Reason (R) As without this rejection, his theory was totally untenable.

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