Public Administration
Short Questions
1. What is Public Administration?
Answer: It’s the management of government resources to achieve public goals.
2. Name the three branches of government.
Answer: Legislature, Executive, Judiciary.
3. What does POSDCORB stand for?
Answer: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Coordinating, Reporting, Budgeting.
4. Who wrote Arthashastra?
Answer: Kautilya.
5. What is NITI Aayog’s role?
Answer: It’s a policy think tank for planning and advising the government.
6. Who conducts UPSC exams?
Answer: Union Public Service Commission.
7. What is the highest administrative officer at the district level?
Answer: Collector.
8. What is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Answer: Companies working on social and environmental issues.
9. Who heads a Municipal Corporation?
Answer: Municipal Commissioner and Mayor.
10. What is the first step in public policy-making?
Answer: Policy Choice.
Long Questions
1. How is Public Administration different from Political Science?
Answer: Political Science studies how policies and laws are made, while Public Administration focuses on implementing them. It deals with the executive branch’s actions to achieve government goals.
2. What is the role of bureaucracy in Public Administration?
Answer: Bureaucracy implements government policies and programs. They are hired through competitive exams like UPSC and maintain political neutrality.
3. Explain the narrow perspective of Public Administration.
Answer: The narrow perspective, based on POSDCORB, focuses only on the executive branch’s tasks like planning, organizing, staffing, and budgeting to manage government work.
4. How does the broad perspective of Public Administration differ from the narrow one?
Answer: The broad perspective includes all three government branches (Legislature, Executive, Judiciary) and their interactions, unlike the narrow focus on just the executive branch.
5. What is the significance of Kautilya’s Arthashastra in Public Administration?
Answer: Arthashastra is an ancient text on administration, detailing governance and management during Chandragupta Maurya’s rule, influencing modern administrative thought.
6. How did Woodrow Wilson contribute to Public Administration?
Answer: Woodrow Wilson’s 1887 essay, The Study of Public Administration, laid the foundation for it as an academic discipline, emphasizing government efficiency.
7. What are the three steps in public policy-making?
Answer: Policy Choice (deciding the issue and solution), Policy Output (implementing the plan), and Policy Impact (evaluating the results to improve the policy).
8. Describe the structure of local government administration in rural India.
Answer: Rural administration includes Zilla Parishad (district), Panchayat Samiti (block), and Gram Panchayat (village), led by officials like Collectors, BDOs, and Sarpanch.
9. What is the role of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)?
Answer: UPSC conducts exams to recruit bureaucrats for All India Services and Central Services, ensuring a competent and neutral administrative workforce.
10. How does the Indian Constitution guide Public Administration?
Answer: The Constitution provides values like Liberty, Equality, and Justice, which guide politicians and bureaucrats in administering policies for public welfare.
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