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Public choice is the economic study of non-market decision-making or simply the application of economics to political science. Who said this?

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Assertion (A): Public Administration is both field of activity and a field of systematic study.
Reason (R): The evolution of Public Administration as a specialised field of study falls into a number of critical stages.

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Match the List-I with List-II-
List-I (Author) List-II (Statement)
a. John A. Vieg 1. Public Administration consists of all those operations having for the purpose the fulfillment or enforcement of public policy
b. L. D. White 2. Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives
c. Herbert A. Simon 3. In its broadest sense, administration can be defined as the activities of groups co-operating to accomplish common goals
d. Luther Gulick 4. Administration is a determined action taken in pursuit of conscious purpose
5. Administration is the organization and direction of human and material resources to achieve desired ends

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How Chester Barnard defined equilibrium of system?

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Match the List-I with List-II-
List-I List-II
a. Development Administration 1. Dwight Waldo
b. Administrative Development 2. Rebort Dahl
c. New Public Administration 3. Edward Weidner
d. Comparative Public Administration 4. F. W. Riggs

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"Administration is the direction, co-ordination and control of many persons to achieve some purpose or objective" who stated this:

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Which among the following is the basic difference between Public Administration and Private Administration?

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New Public Administration does not focus upon the

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Arrange the following stages in the evolution of Public Administration as a discipline in the chronalogical order:
1. Principles Approach
2. Public Policy Approach
3. Administrative Behaviour
4. Politics-Administration Dichotomy
5. Ecological Approach

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Match the following
List-I List-II
a. Benevolent Autocratic 1. System 1
b. Participative 2. System 2
c. Autocratic 3. System 3
d. Consultative 4. System 4

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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Ideas and issues in Public Administration 1. Appleby
b. Big Democracy 2. Waldo
c. Frontiers of Development Codes 3. Goodnow
d. Policies and Administration 4. Riggs

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Who coined the acronym POSDCORB?

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The term "Development Administration" was coined by:

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Which of the following statements is incorrect about ethical issues in decision-making?

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Match the following.
List-I List-II
a. Ostrom 1. Model of Information Energy
b. Dorsey 2. School of Public Choice
c. Habermas 3. Model of Decision-Making
d. Landau 4. Critical Theory

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According to Robert Dahl, the evolution of a science of public administration is a problem because of the need to concentrate on.
1. clarification of ends
2. aspects of human behaviour
3. integrated view of politics and administration
4. sociological study of administration
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Espirit de Corps means

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Theory X assumes what about people?

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Match the following
List-I List-II
a. Comparative Administration 1. Willoughby
b. Proverbs of Administration 2. Riggs
c. Ecology of Administration 3. Simon
d. Principles of Administration 4. Dahl

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Which among the following is not the part of Mc Clelland's theory of needs?

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