Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Scholars created a common definition for public administration a century after the field’s inception.
2. Public administrators must answer not only to their superiors but also to legislators and the courts.
3. Policy formulation and policy execution are so similar that public administration scholars have often argued that the two concepts should be combined.
4. The term red tape refers to the ways administrators must use federal programs to more securely attach the different layers of government.
5. In writing about a politics–administration dichotomy, Woodrow Wilson was mostly arguing that public administrators were basically the same as members of Congress.


1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. FALSE

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