Discussion
Assertion (A) Reason (R) Pattern :
Assertion (A) : Publicness in Public Administration is a complex-structured concept.
Reason (R) : Public Administration differs from private administration with regard to at least three major dimensions-locus (agency), focus (public interest) and access (openness).
Codes :
Answer: B
The keyed answer is both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(A) is true: publicness is not one simple property, because a body can be public in several respects at once, such as ownership, funding, control and the purpose it serves. (R) is also true: public administration differs from private administration in the locus (which agency), the focus (the public interest) and the access (openness) that it has.
The key holds that (R) lists the dimensions in which public and private administration differ, which is a different statement from saying why publicness itself is complex-structured, so (R) is true but not the explanation. This is a matter of judgement, because one can also read the three dimensions as the structure of the concept; I follow the key. Codes C and D are wrong because both statements are true.
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