Kerala SET Unit 9: Public Administration Part III - Political Science Coaching Centre

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Kerala SET Unit 9: Public Administration Part III

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1. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists. (KERALA SET 2019 FEB)

A

B

C

D

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2. Idea of ‘Administrative Man’ is associated with: (KERALA SET 2018 FEB)

A) Graicunas

B) Simon

C) Mooney

D) Fayol

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3. Who among the following have emphasised environmental factor in decision making approach? (KERALA SET 2018 FEB)

A) Harold Sprout & Margaret Sprout

B) Simon & Burton

C) Talcott Parsons & Edward Shills

D) Mackinder & Spykman

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4. The idea of Scientific Management was developed by: (KERALA SET 2019 FEB)

A) Luther Gullick

B) F W Taylor

C) Woodrow Wilson

D) F W Riggs

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5. The “Scientific Management Movement” was initiated by: (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A) L.D White

B) F.W Tailor

C) Luther Gulick

D) Willoughby

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6. Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below: (KERALA SET 2018 JULY)

A

B

C

D

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7. Who among the following rejected the principle of Unity of Command? (KERALA SET 2017 FEB)

A) Henry Fayol

B) Newman

C) Urwick

D) F.W.Taylor

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8. How many qualities were prescribed by Taylor for a good foreman? (KERALA SET 2017 FEB)

A) 7

B) 8

C) 9

D) 10

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9. ‘Mental Revolution’ is related with ------- approach in Public Administration. (KERALA SET 2015 DEC)

A) Human Relations

B) Systems Approach

C) Scientific Management

D) Structural Functional

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10. Which one of the following is incorrectly matched? (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

A) Merit Bureaucracy – 19thcentury Prussian Civil Service

B) Patronage Bureaucracy – 19thcentury American Civil Service

C) Guardian Bureaucracy – 16thcentury Chinese Civil Service

D) Caste Bureaucracy – 18thcentury British Civil Service

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11. The idea of ‘Committed Bureaucracy’ in India was advocated by: (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

A) Indira Gandhi

B) Jawaharlal Nehru

C) Morarji Desai

D) Sardar Patel

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12. The country which is regarded as the traditional home of Patronage Bureaucracy: (KERALA SET 2019 JULY)

A) France

B) USA

C) Britain

D) China

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13. The traditional home of patronage bureaucracy is: (KERALA SET 2019 FEB)

A) UK

B) France

C) China

D) USA

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14. Which among the following is not a characteristic of Weberian model of Bureaucracy? (KERALA SET 2019 FEB)

A) Administration conducted on the basis of written documents

B) Officials are accountable for use of official resources

C) Official business in continuous basis

D) Offices are inherited

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15. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). (KERALA SET 2018 FEB)

Assertion (A) : Bureaucracy plays a more important role in policy formulation in developing countries than the developed ones.

Reason (R) : In developing countries, because of weaknesses of interest groups and political parties, articulation and aggregation of interests through them are not possible.

A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)

C) (A) is true but (R) is false

D) (A) is false but (R) is true

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16. Who pointed out three defects of Indian bureaucracy as Procrastination, Yesmanship and Corruption? (KERALA SET 2017 FEB)

A) Appleby

B) Gorewala

C) Sardar Patel

D) Gopalaswamy Aiyyangar

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17. Who classified bureaucracy as ‘Cosmopolitans’ and ‘Locals’? (KERALA SET 2017 FEB)

A) La Palambara

B) Etzioni

C) M.P. Follet

D) Alvin Gouldner

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18. Which one of the following is a drawback in Max Weber’s bureaucratic model? (KERALA SET 2017 FEB)

A) Lack of normative factors as guiding action

B) Lack of legal rational principles

C) Lack of a theoretically integrated total system of action

D) Lack of rule of law upon the functioning of bureaucratic organization.

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19. Which of the following is a NOT a feature of bureaucracy envisaged by Max Weber? (KERALA SET 2015 DEC)

A) Each office has defined competence

B) Promotions are by merit only

C) Organised in hierarchy of offices

D) Officials are subject to discipline in the conduct of office

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20. Which type of recruitment is most widely prevalent in modern states? (KERALA SET 2015 DEC)

A) Contract system

B) Spoils system

C) Patronage system

D) Merit system

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21. Match List -I with List -II (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A

B

C

D

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22. Match the following (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A

B

C

D

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23. The power and authority of bureaucracy was characterised as 'New Despotism' by: (KERALA SET 2022 JULY)

A) Robert A Dahl

B) Lord Hewart

C) S.M Lipset

D) Paul H. Appleby

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24. “Bureaucracy is the price of parliamentary democracy” Who said this ? (KERALA SET 2022 JAN)

A) Simon

B) Herbert Morrison

C) Max weber

D) Woodrow Wilson

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25. The phrase “development bureaucracy” was coined by: (KERALA SET 2022 JAN)

A) Alfred Diamant

B) La Palambora

C) F.W Riggs

D) Maslow

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26. The correct sequence of F. M. Marx’s classification of bureaucracy is: (KERALA SET 2021 JULY)

1. Guardian bureaucracy

2. Caste bureaucracy

3. Patronage bureaucracy

4. Merit bureaucracy

A) 2, 3, 1, 4

B) 4, 2, 1, 3

C) 1, 2, 3, 4

D) 4, 3, 2, 1

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27. Identify the wrong statement with regard to the features of Weberian model of Bureaucracy: (KERALA SET 2020 FEB)

A) There is a hierarchy of offices

B) There are multiple channels of communication

C) Official business in continuous basis

D) Officers are selected through competition

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28. Who has criticized Bureaucracy for creating ‘red-tapism’? (KERALA SET 2013 DEC)

A) E N Gladden

B) W B Munro

C) Ramsay Muir

D) Charles E Merriam

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29. Which of the following countries has the beginning of Bureaucracy in the ‘spoil system’? (KERALA SET 2013 DEC)

A) UK

B) USA

C) India

D) France

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