INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

What is the importance of Dwight Waldo’s The Administrative State (1948)?

Following the publication of The Administrative State (Waldo 1948), an embryonic theory of bureaucratic politics began to emerge from a series of studies examining decision-making in the executive branch.

What was the significant claim generated by these studies?

What was the central theme to analyze in Graham Allison’s "Essence of Decision"?

According to Allison’s model of bureaucratic politics there are four basic propositions. One of them is “political resultant”. What does “political resultant” mean?

Which of the following is "One of the key contributions of organizational behavior scholarship to bureaucratic politics theory"?

Government organization, or, more accurately, reorganization, is a subject near and dear to the discipline of public administration and a perennial feature of American politics. For virtually the length of the twentieth century, and continuing into the twenty-first, critics have argued that the central problem of government is poor management.

What does it mean?

For public administration, networks can be thought of as a set of organizations that are interdependent, what do they share?

I. goals and interests,

II. resources, 

III. values.

Whose work has given ample justification for pursuing comprehensive explanations of the political role of bureaucracy?

What does "The theory of representative bureaucracy" focus on?

Which of the following are the assumptions behind the theory of representative bureaucracy?

I. there are good reasons for public agencies to be organized the way they are (i.e., undemocratically)

II. undemocratic agencies exercise considerable political power.

III.  there is no need for organizational arrangements.