Aof Panel

Soru 1

Frederickson argues there are five main problems with the state of the governance framework. Which of the follwoing is NOT one of them?

Soru 1

Theory in the social sciences and in public administration means the ordering of factual material. Which of the following is NOT one of these factual material?

Soru 2

Which of the following scientists have provided the most important contributions to the governance literature?

Soru 2

When was the so-called behavioral revolution in political science happened?

Soru 3

Choose the option that completes the following statement correctly.

"The basic question at the heart of all governance-related research is this: How can .......... regimes, agencies, programs and activities be organized and managed to achieve public purposes?."

Soru 3

In issues of collective human purposes, which of the above are easy to measure?

Soru 4

Choose the option that completes the following statement correctly.

"Like network theory, Lynn et al.’s concept of governance operates on at least three distinct levels: the institutional, the .........., and the technical."

Soru 4

Which political science positions encompass above points?

Soru 5

Which of the following characterizes a global public management reform movement that has redefined the relationships between government and society?

Soru 5

Which social scientist argued that social reality is composed of the ideas and beliefs of social actors?

Soru 6

Which of the following is NOT one of the core issues of New Public Management?

Soru 6

Which of the above methods traditional public administration theory derived?

Soru 7

Peters and Pierre argue that four basic elements characterize discussions of governance. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Soru 7

In the 1960s, at the time of the so-called behavioral revolution in political science, there were essentially two positions regarding the prospects for a rigorous empirically based theory or set of theories to explain political behavior. What were these positions?

Soru 8

What is the meaning of theory in natural and physical sciences?

Soru 8

Choose the option that completes the following statement correctly.

"Frederickson defines that .......... refers to the lateral and interinstitutional relations in administration in the context of the decline of sovereignty, the decreasing importance of jurisdictional borders, and a general institutional fragmentation."

Soru 9

Which of the following is not true related to the traditional and behavioral positions in public administration?

Soru 9

Which of the following is a theory that stands in fairly stark contrast with New Public Management?

Soru 10

_____ argue that by being more scientific, public administration shies away from the big questions of right and wrong. The tidy models of the _____, they argue, can lend a specious air of authority to such work.

Which of the following option fills the blanks above?

Soru 10

Choose the option that completes the following statement correctly.

"The .......... is an attempt to place distinct boundaries around the concept of governance. Moving beyond the work of Lynn et al., it provides an organizing theme and direction for public administration and governance scholars."

Soru 11

Which one of the items below doesn’t describe the underlying utility of any theory?

Soru 11

Which book is the intellectual foundation upon which neoclassical economic theory was built?

Soru 12

Which one of the components below a theory depends on?

Soru 12

Who wrote the book titled "An Economic Theory of Democracy"?

Soru 13

According to some scholars what kind of theories are possible in the arena of public administration?

Soru 13

What are the three basic elements of neo- classical economic thought?

Soru 14

Which one of the items below doesn’t define the field of public administration?

Soru 14

"______________means an individual knows her preferences or goals, can rank-order them, and when faced with a set of options to achieve those preferences will choose those expected to maximize individual benefits and minimize individual costs."

Which term best completes the blank in this sentence?

Soru 15

What is the basic objective which ensures that administration can be accountable?

Soru 15

"Only individuals, not collectives, make decisions. This is known as_______________, and it presumes that collective decisions are aggregations of individual choices, not a unique property of the group."

Which term best completes the blank in this sentence?

Soru 16

What is name of the component that the systematic thinking about public administration sticks with?

Soru 16

In Downs’s classification, who are the bureaucrats who want to maximize their power, income, or prestige?

Soru 17

Which one of the components below lessens the replicative, descriptive and predictive capacities of the theory?

Soru 17

In Downs’s classification, who are the bureaucrats who want to maximize security and convenience, and they will more likely defend existing prerogatives and functions rather than try to invent new ones?

Soru 18

Who said that any attempt to seperate administration and politics is likely to fail?

Soru 18

In Downs’s classification, who are the bureaucrats motivated to pursue particular policies, even in the face of overwhelming obstacles?

Soru 19

After Waldo’s critique, what have the scholars done?

Soru 19

In Downs’s classification, who are the bureaucrats that aggressively pursue favored policies but are more open to influence from peers and superiors?

Soru 20

In Downs’s classification, who are the bureaucrats seeking to promote the public interest through the promotion of broad policy goals?

Soru 20

What is the most promising framework which coherently distinguishes and links the administrative and political elements of the government?

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