Public Administration in India Politics MCQs with Answers 2027

Q301

Who among the following administrative thinkers have suported the distinction between public and private administration?
1. Paul H. Appleby
2. M. P. Fallet
3. Sir Josiah Stamp
4. Herbert Simon
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Q302

Open question

Arrange the following in correct sequence.
1. The administrative state
2. Ideas and issues in public administration
3. The enterprise of public administration
4. Design for policy sciences

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Q303

Open question

Consider the following statements.
1. Public administration is political while private administration is non-political.
2. Public administration is bureaucratic whereas private administration is business like.
3. Public administration is service-oriented while private administration is profit oriented.
4. This subject is characterised by red tapism while private administration is free from it.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

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Q304

Open question

Public Administration includes all the activities of the government whether falling in the sphere of the legislative, executive or judicial branch of the government. This statement reflects the:

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Q305

Open question

Match the following

List-I	List-II
a. As long as the study of public administration is not comparative claims for a science of public administration sound rather hollow.	1. Riggs
b. Bureaucratic structures are necessary but not sufficient structures for a productive and responsive public service economy.	2. Weidner
c. Development administration is an action oriented, goal-oriented administrative system.	3. Robert Dahl
d. A public administration which fails to work for changes, which try to redress the deprivation of minorities will likely be eventually used to repress those minorities.	4. Ostrom
	5. Fredrickson

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Q306

Open question

What concept in an organisation defines the goals of that organisation?

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Q307

Open question

Match the List-I with List-II-

List-I	List-II
a. Ecology of Administration	1. Willoughby
b. Proverbs of Administration	2. F. W. Riggs
c. Emparative Administration	3. Simon
d. Principles of Administration	4. Dahl

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Q308

Open question

The time period of human attitudes and sentiments experiment is

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Q309

Open question

Match the List-I with List-II-

List-I (Writer)	List-II (Book)
a. Mayo	1. Elements of Administration
b. Mc Gergor	2. The Practice of Management
c. Druker	3. The Human side of Enterprise
d. Urwick	4. The Social Problems of an Industrial Civilisation
	5. Functions of the Executive

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Q310

Open question

Collegiality means

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Q311

Open question

Which of the following pair is incorrectly matched?

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Q312

Open question

Scalar chain is universal phenomenon, who said that?

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Q313

Open question

"Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives" whose statement is it?

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Q314

Open question

Situational Design theory emphasises on which aspect of organisation?

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Q315

Open question

Firstly, Howthrone experiment took place under the leadership of

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Q316

Open question

Public Choice Theory has been chiefly propounded by
1. Vincent Ostrom
2. William Niskaran
3. Dennis Muller
4. Willoughby
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Q317

Open question

The disadvantage of hierarchy is
1. Red Tapism
2. Rigidity in organisation
3. Decentralised decision-making
4. Creates superiority and inferiority feeling

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Q318

Open question

The incorrect statements about Central Vigilance Commission are:
1. It was set up on the recommendation of Administrative Reforms Commission.
2. It is headed by the Central Vigilance Commissioner appointed by the Prime Minister.
3. Its functions, in certain cases, overlap with the functions of the UPS(c).
4. It is certainly a substitute for an Ombudsman.
5. It receives complaints directly from aggrieved persons.

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Q319

Open question

Which among the following is not the part of Fayol's 14 principles of organisation?

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Q320

Open question

New Public Management is also known as

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