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“Public policy encourages, discourages, prohibits, and prescribes private action”
What is the definition for public policy?
(The definition being quoted by David Weimer and Aidan Vining)
The study of public administration in the U.S. largely emerged due to the contributions of this particular person.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
(He published an article titled "The Study of Administration" in an 1887 edition of Political Science Quarterly)
“The only institution in society able to enforce its decisions on all others through the legitimate use or threat of force”
What is government?
(This was the definition of government presented to the class on the first day when we discussed the Tragedy of the Commons.)
This amendment provides the states with police powers
What is the 10th amendment?
(the "reserved powers" amendment)
The division of powers and functions between the national government and state governments
What is federalism?
(This is traditional or vertical federalism)
The three ways in which government may achieve its goals
What is directly, indirectly, and through voluntary cooperation?
The individual credited for writing the first American book on public administration
Who is Leonard White?
(He wrote Introductions to The Study of Public Administration in 1926, which was used as the first textbook in the field.)
This is also referred to as layered cake federalism
What is dual federalism?
This is also referred to as marble cake federalism
What is cooperative federalism?
"The complex structure of offices, tasks, rules, and principles of organization that are employed by large-scale institutions to coordinate the work of their personnel"
What is bureaucracy?
(The definition is provided by Theodore Lowi)
The implied powers of the government comes from this specific clause in the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Section 8
What is the Necessary and Proper clause?
(sometimes it is referred to as the "elastic" clause)
This act created the modern civil service
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883?
This is an analogy used to refer to creative federalism in order to help describe the relationship between the different levels of government
What is picket fence federalism?
Administration lies outside the sphere of politics according to this person
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Political power is "the lifeblood of administration" according to this person
Who is Norton E. Long?
This person believed that permanent bureaucracy was necessary for society to operate as it is the most effective way to organize well-trained professionals. At the same time he feared the loss of individual freedom and despair.
Who is Max Weber?
The financial relationship that developed between the levels of government where the states largely rely on the federal government for funding
What is fiscal federalism?
The three general tasks of bureaucracy
What is implementation, policy-making, and administrative adjudication?
Max Weber explained it as a legally established impersonal order based on office/position
What is rational-legal authority?
This president created the Executive Office of the President and took on delegated powers, which helped him expand the federal bureaucracy
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
According to Deil S. Wright, this emerged largely due to the 1960s national policies and the growing difficulty implementing and managing Intergovernmental relations (IGR).
What is Intergovernmental management (IGM)?
States partnering together to enter into lawsuits against big tobacco or Microsoft Corporation
What is multi-state legal action?
(In her article on horizontal federalism, Ann Bowman discusses three types of relationships that exist between/among states)
The 8 specific concerns that Eugene Bardach explains may emerege as a result
What is concerns for interorganizational relations?
A grant allocated by the federal government to the states and localities allowing them greater discretion to utlize it on a wide range of programs.
What is a block grant?
This is when high level policymakers dictate to lower-level public administrators on how to implement their programs
What is top-down method?