The formal tasks of public personnel administration have traditionally included position classification, recruitment, examination, selection, and compensation
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
ANS: T
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Which of the following does NOT describe the relationship between the country's electoral system and how South African political parties act during elections?
a. The system encourages parties to seek voters outside of their core supporters. b. Because the electorate is spread out, parties are encouraged to adopt positions that have broad appeal. c. Because the system does not focus on individual candidates, party leaders put people on their lists that might not win popular support if elections were centered on the appeal of individual candidates. d. Multiparty competition is encouraged because the double-ballot system allows voters to split their vote, thus allowing even smaller parties the chance to obtain executive office. e. Parties are unlikely to engage in civil electioneering because the system distributes seats proportionally, thus encouraging parties to win as many as possible.
Party machines—centralized party organizations at the local level that dominated politics by controlling local elections—declined because
a. they could not provide needed services to the urban community. b. many of their activities were illegal. c. they were never effective at controlling local elections. d. they became increasingly corrupt and unable to deliver on promises e. government began to provide the social services that had been the basis of popular loyalty and support for the machines.
The state of affairs in Pennsylvania seemed to suggest that
A. state constitutions were generally successful. B. the rights and liberties of citizens were secure in a confederation. C. unitary systems were more liberal than confederations. D. democracy and tyranny might not be all that far apart from one another. E. it is not a good thing to create a separate, independent executive.
Which of the following is a key factor in the increased size of the Cabinet over the years?
A) president's inability to get legislative initiatives passed by Congress B) growth in the responsibilities of government C) new congressional requirement that Cabinet departments have an equal relationship with a particular congressional committee D) the feeling that the Cabinet should remain proportional in size to the bureaucracy E) president's need to be seen as a consensus builder