MCQs on Public Administration
In this Political Science CUET Mock Test 30 important MCQs on Public Administration were discussed on Meaning, Scope, Significance and Evolution of Public Administration. These MCQs are very helpful for PG entrance tests like CPET and CUET.
Meaning, Scope, Significance and Evolution of Public Administration
- Who is known as the father of Public Administration?
a) L.D. White
b) Luther Gulick
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: c) Woodrow Wilson
2. Who said, “Public Administration consists of all those operations having for their purpose the fulfillment or enforcement of public policy”?
a) L.D. White
b) Luther Gulick
c) Dimock
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: a) L.D. White
3. Who defined administration as ‘the fourth branch’ of government?
a) F.A. Nigro
b) L.D. White
c) Luther Gulick
d) Willoughby
Ans: d) Willoughby
4. Who gave the statement “Public Administration is detailed and systematic execution of law”?
a) Luther Gulick
b) Simon
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: c) Woodrow Wilson
5. According to whom, ‘Public Administration is concerned with the administration of the government’?
a) Gladden
b) Simon
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: a) Gladden
6. Who said, ‘Public Administration is administration related to the operations of Government whether central or local’?
a) D. Waldo
b) P. McQueen
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: b) P. McQueen
7. According to — view public administration is the sum total of managerial, technical, clerical and manual activities?
a) Wider view
b) Narrow view
c) Integral view
d) Managerial view
Ans: c) Integral view
8. Who among the following is a supporter of integral view?
a) Simon
b) Smithburg
c) Thompson
d) L.D. White
Ans: d) L.D. White
9. Who said, ‘Administration has to do with getting things done; with the accomplishment of defined objectives’?
a) Luther Gulick
b) Simon
c) Smithburg
d) Thompson
Ans: a) Luther Gulick
10. Who gave the POSDCORB view of public administration?
a) Hennery Fayol
b) Smithburg
c) Luther Gulick
d) L.D. White
Ans: c) Luther Gulick
11. Luther Gulick defined about how many elements of administration in his POSDCORB view?
a) 6
b) 7
c) 8
d) 5
Ans: b) 7
12. What is the full form of ‘CO’ in POSDCORB?
a) Cooperation
b) Coordination
c) Comparison
d) Control
Ans: b) Coordination
13. Who is known as the father of American public administration?
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Frank J. Goodnow
c) Willoughby
d) L.D. White
Ans: b) Frank J. Goodnow
14. Who wrote the book “The Study of Administration”?
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Luther Gulick
c) Simon
d) Smithburg
Ans: a) Woodrow Wilson
15. Who said, “If our civilization fails, it will be mainly because of a breakdown of administration”?
a) Ramsay Muir
b) W.B. Donham
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) Luther Gulick
Ans: b) W.B. Donham
16. Who said, “The administrative process is universal”?
a) Henry Fayol
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) Luther Gulick
d) Simon
Ans: a) Henry Fayol
17. Who separated administration from politics?
a) Woodrow Wilson
b) Frank J. Goodnow
c) Luther Gulick
d) Simon
Ans: a) Woodrow Wilson
18. Who said, “Politics has to do with policies whereas administration has to do with the execution of these policies”?
a) L.D. White
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) Frank J. Goodnow
d) Luther Gulick
Ans: c) Frank J. Goodnow
19. Which was the first textbook on public administration?
a) The Study of Administration
b) Politics and Administration
c) Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
d) Principles of Public Administration
Ans: c) Introduction to the Study of Public Administration
20. Who wrote the book “Principles of Public Administration”?
a) Henry Fayol
b) Frank J. Goodnow
c) Willoughby
d) D. White
Ans: c) Willoughby
21. Who wrote “Creative Experience”?
a) M.P. Follet
b) Henry Fayol
c) Frank J. Goodnow
d) Willoughby
Ans: a) Henry Fayol
22. Who emphasized the environmental effects on administrative behavior?
a) Robert Dahl
b) M.P. Follet
c) Henry Fayol
d) Frank J. Goodnow
Ans: a) Robert Dahl
23. Who criticized the principles of administration as “proverbs”?
a) Robert Dahl
b) M.P. Follet
c) Henry Fayol
d) Herbert Simon
Ans: d) Herbert Simon
24. Who is the advocate of public choice theory?
a) F. W. Riggs
b) Vincent Ostrom
c) M.P. Follet
d) Henry Fayol
Ans: b) Vincent Ostrom
25. Who define the separation between politics and administration had become an “outworn credo”?
a) Dwight Waldo
b) F.W. Riggs
c) Vincent Ostrom
d) M.P. Follet
Ans: a) Dwight Waldo
26. Who made a distinction between public and private administration?
a) Henry Fayol
b) M.P. Follet
c) Peter Drucker
d) Lyndall Urwick
Ans: c) Peter Drucker
27. Which type of administration is generally characterized by red-tape?
a) Public administration
b) Private administration
c) Both a) and b)
d) None of these
Ans: a) Public administration
28. Who said public administration as service institution and private institution as business institution?
a) Josia Stamp
b) M.P. Follet
c) Peter Drucker
d) Lyndall Urwick
Ans: c) Peter Drucker
29. Who among the following thinker viewed public administration and private administration are almost similar?
a) Paul H. Appleby
b) Josia Stamp
c) Simon
d) Henry Fayol
Ans: d) Henry Fayol
30. Who wrote the book “The Administrative State”?
a) F.M. Marx
b) H.A. Simon
c) C.I. Barnard
d) M.P. Follet
Ans: a) F.M. Marx