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Development administration in India is concerned with:

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Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?

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Who among the following has specified six qualities of an administrator/manager-physical, mental moral, general education, special knowledge and experience?

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e-governance is
1. Cost- efficient
2. Transparent
3. Time-saving
4. Responsive
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Which one of the following is not a stage in decision-making process given by Herbert Simon?

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Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:
List-I (Administrative thinkers) List-II (Administrative approaches)
a. M. P. Follett 1. Garbage Can Model
b. Herbert Simon 2. Mixed Scanning
c. Michael D. Cohen 3. Psychological approach
d. Amitai Etzioni 4. Rational approach

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Which of the following were published between 1927 and 1937, the period in which the central belief was that there are certain principles of administration?
1. Principles of Public Administration
2. Industrial and General Management
3. Principles of Organisation
4. Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
5. Papers on the Science of Administration
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Who among the following contended that political development is administrative and legal development?
1. R. R. Rostow
2. Talcott Parsons
3. Sorokin
4. Max Weber
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Who among the following remained Chairman of the Comparative Administrative Group in the United States of America of 10 Years?

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The 'one best way' in scientific management means

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Cybernetics means

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As long as study of Public Administration was not comparative, claims for a science of Public Administration would sound hollow. Who made this statement:

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Who called bureaucrats as 'ruling servants'?

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Which of the following statements are correct?
1. Public Administration is a broader concept than administration
2. Administration is a wider concept than Public Administration
3. Public Administration and Administration are synonymous
4. Public Administration and Government Administration are synonymous

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What was he referring to when Mooney said 'conferring of specified authority by a higher authority'?

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The POSDCORB view of the scope of the study of Public Administration was criticised on the grounds that
1. They are neither the whole of administration nor even the important part of it.
2. They are only the tools of administration.
3. The techniques of management are deeply coloured by the subject media of the services in which they have to operate.
4. The specialised techniques of the various field of concrete administration activity is missing in the posdcorb view.
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Which century according to Easton is 'The Age of Scientific Method'?

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Arrange the following approaches to the study of Public Administration in a sequential order.
1. Behavioural approach
2. Systems approach
3. Institutional approach
4. Public Policy approach

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Who among the following was the first to advance the idea of worker's participation in management?

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Who among the following coined the term 'representative bureaucracy'?

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