Foundations of Public Administration
A situation where an administrator decides how to enforce a policy already passed.
What is administrative discretion?
The element of considering the equity lens or adding an issue to a political agenda are not a part of this cycle.
What is the issue attention cycle?
When individuals explicitly prioritize personal or specific group interests, believing their interests are for the greater public good than the existing system, they are engaging in?
What is guerilla government?
The theory that increased observation can improve worker productivity.
What is the Hawthorne Effect?
A major public sector challenge related to mass retirements.
What is the silver tsunami?
The idea that political leaders make policy while administrators merely implement it
What is the politics–administration dichotomy?
Examples like parking and license plate sensors, e-permitting, red light cams and live-streamed council meetings are examples of:
What is smart city technology?
This system focuses on maintaining stability through employment, prices, and income distribution.
What is fiscal federalism?
This organizational idea views organizations as force multipliers.
What is classic organizational theory?
Improving worker compliance and attitudes using mutual respect and shared decision-making refers to the what psychology presented by Follet?
What are the Giving of Orders?
A governing structure where local governments only have powers explicitly granted by the state.
What is Dillons Rule?
Lindblom’s observation that decision-makers usually rely on incremental adjustments.
What is the successive limited comparison (branch) method?
Many management experts dislike these because they create a separation of the labor and management’s interests rather than the organization itself
What are unions?
The ethical concept explaining how ordinary people commit atrocities under systems of authority.
What is the banality of evil?
This management framework contrasts assumptions that workers are inherently lazy and require control with assumptions that workers are self-motivated and seek responsibility.
What are Theory X and Theory Y?
The following activities exemplify some of what function of a government agency? human resources division recruiting and training new public health inspectors, department head submitting quarterly performance reports to a legislative oversight committee
What is POSDCORB?
The theoretical ideal model of decision-making rarely practiced in reality.
What is the rational comprehensive (root) method?
Understanding marijuana legalization in the last 80 years requires understanding this concept.
What are intergovernmental relations?
Government slowness caused by rigid processes and hierarchies.
What is bureaucratic lethargy?
Continuing work during furloughs reflects this type of motivation.
What is normative motivation?
A governing structure where municipalities may act unless explicitly prohibited by the state.
What is Home Rule?
The tradeoff street-level bureaucrats constantly balance when serving the public.
What is efficiency vs. equity?
Public sector leadership is different than private because of what 3 elements?
What are: constrained resources, limited decision-making frameworks, and concerns about equity?
This recognizes the inherent disparities of income and status.
What are principles of justice?
Leadership theory emphasizing shared power and collaboration.
What is followership?