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Public Administration In India Politics — Part 2 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Political Science & International Relations MCQs on Public Administration In India Politics — Part 2 with worked academic solutions for CSS, PMS, FPSC, PPSC, KPPSC.

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Question 1 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Development administration in India is concerned with:

Question 2 of 40
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Who among the following has specified six qualities of an administrator/manager-physical, mental moral, general education, special knowledge and experience?

Question 3 of 40
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e-governance is 1. Cost- efficient 2. Transparent 3. Time-saving 4. Responsive Select the correct answer:

Question 4 of 40
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Which one of the following is not a stage in decision-making process given by Herbert Simon?

Question 5 of 40
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I (Administrative thinkers) List-II (Administrative approaches) a. M. P. Follett 1. Garbage Can Model b. Herbert Simon 2. Mixed Scanning c. Michael D. Cohen 3. Psychological approach d. Amitai Etzioni 4. Rational approach

Question 6 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following were published between 1927 and 1937, the period in which the central belief was that there are certain principles of administration? 1. Principles of Public Administration 2. Industrial and General Management 3. Principles of Organisation 4. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration 5. Papers on the Science of Administration Select the correct answer:

Question 7 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following contended that political development is administrative and legal development? 1. R. R. Rostow 2. Talcott Parsons 3. Sorokin 4. Max Weber Select the correct answer:

Question 8 of 40
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Who among the following remained Chairman of the Comparative Administrative Group in the United States of America of 10 Years?

Question 9 of 40
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The 'one best way' in scientific management means

Question 10 of 40
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Cybernetics means

Question 11 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

As long as study of Public Administration was not comparative, claims for a science of Public Administration would sound hollow. Who made this statement:

Question 12 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who called bureaucrats as 'ruling servants'?

Question 13 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following statements are correct? 1. Public Administration is a broader concept than administration 2. Administration is a wider concept than Public Administration 3. Public Administration and Administration are synonymous 4. Public Administration and Government Administration are synonymous

Question 14 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

What was he referring to when Mooney said 'conferring of specified authority by a higher authority'?

Question 15 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The POSDCORB view of the scope of the study of Public Administration was criticised on the grounds that 1. They are neither the whole of administration nor even the important part of it. 2. They are only the tools of administration. 3. The techniques of management are deeply coloured by the subject media of the services in which they have to operate. 4. The specialised techniques of the various field of concrete administration activity is missing in the posdcorb view. Select the correct answer:

Question 16 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which century according to Easton is 'The Age of Scientific Method'?

Question 17 of 40
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Arrange the following approaches to the study of Public Administration in a sequential order. 1. Behavioural approach 2. Systems approach 3. Institutional approach 4. Public Policy approach

Question 18 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following was the first to advance the idea of worker's participation in management?

Question 19 of 40
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Who among the following coined the term 'representative bureaucracy'?

Question 20 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following gave the Bounded Rationality model of decision-making?

Question 21 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The traditional home of patronage bureaucracy is

Question 22 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Easton described his drastic revision in political science in 1969 as

Question 23 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following is not associated with evolving the principles of organisation?

Question 24 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I (Books) List-II (Authors) a. An Introduction to Administrative Law 1. Frank J. Goodnow b. Justice and Administrative Law 2. A. V. Dicey c. Comparative Administrative Law 3. James Hart d. Introduction of the Study of the Law of the Constitution 4. W. A. Robson

Question 25 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who among the following do not make a distinction between public and private administration? 1. Henry Fayol 2. M. P. Follet 3. Luther Gulick 4. L. Urwick Select the correct answer:

Question 26 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which one of the following is not a part or the underlying ideas of traditional or mechanistic theory of organisation?

Question 27 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Given below are four definitions given by four authors on Administration. Which one was given by Simon?

Question 28 of 40
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Garbage Can Model' was developed by 1. Michael D. Cohen 2. James G. March 3. Peter Drucker 4. Johan P. Olsen Select the correct answer:

Question 29 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The science of administration is the latest fruit of that study of the science of politics which was begun some twenty-two hundred years ago. This statement was made by:

Question 30 of 40
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The Hawthorne experiments belong to the era of:

Question 31 of 40
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Who views public administration as embracing the executive branch of government only?

Question 32 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Squealer the Human Relations theory is

Question 33 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In his 'Principles of Administration', Pfiffner did not include

Question 34 of 40
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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer: List-I List-II a. Behavioural 1. Administrative syestem as a sub-system of the society b. Bureaucratic 2. Agrarian-Transitia-Industria c. Ecological 3. Legal-Rational aulthority d. General system 4. Analysis of human behaviour in administrative settings

Question 35 of 40
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Beliefs and symbols are the distinctive features of the notion of authority in

Question 36 of 40
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Assertion (A): Public Administration is a great stabilizing force in the society. Reason (R): Government often change but administration seldom experience violent change.

Question 37 of 40
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Who has analysed leadership in terms of 'circular response'?

Question 38 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

New Public Administration is':

Question 39 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) The system of democracy recognises the equality of all people and stands for the government of common people. Reason (R) It is commonly believed that government is largely controlled and managed by 'power elite'.

Question 40 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Inan informal organisation, authority always flows

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