Comparative and Development Administration Questions and Answers

71.

Which of the following features of Development Administration are shared by New Public Administration ?

(i) Effective coordination
(ii) Change orientation
(iii) Temporal dimension
(iv) Goal orientation
(v) Ecological perspective

A.(ii) and (iv)
B.(i) and (ii)
C.(iii) and (v)
D.(iv) and (v)

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: A

The features of development administration shared by new public administration are change orientation and goal orientation, so the answer is A.

Development administration is directed to bringing about social and economic change and to achieving stated goals. New public administration, which arose from the Minnowbrook conference of 1968, likewise asks administration to promote change and to be judged by results, in the cause of social equity.

The other pairs include features, such as the temporal dimension or the ecological perspective, that are not the shared pair in the key.

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72.

Factors responsible for the evolution of the study of Comparative Public Administration is/are

A.Inadequacy of Traditional Approach
B.Rise of New Techniques and concepts of Research
C.Desire to develop Comparative Public Administration as an independent subject
D.All the above

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

The study of Comparative Public Administration grew out of all three factors: dissatisfaction with the traditional approach, which was largely descriptive and confined to Western administrative systems; the rise of new techniques and concepts of research such as the behavioural and systems approaches; and the desire to develop comparative public administration as an independent subject with its own theory. As each of the three statements is correct, the answer is 'all the above', and none of the single options is complete.

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73.

A prismatic society is characterised by

A.a high degree of homogeneity
B.a high degree of heterogeneity
C.a high degree of flexibility
D.None of the above

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Riggs's prismatic society, which lies between the fused (agrarian) and the diffracted (industrial) models, is characterised by a high degree of heterogeneity: old and new institutions, values and practices exist side by side. Homogeneity is a feature of the fused society, in which functions are not differentiated, and flexibility is not a trait of the prismatic model, which Riggs describes as marked by formalism and overlapping. So heterogeneity is the answer.

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74.

Which one of the following reasons is not attributed to the emergence of Development Administration ?

A.Abundance of research funding with the CAG
B.Financial and technical assistance under the USAID programme
C.Abundance of knowledge and managerial skills in developing countries
D.Desire for administrative development in developing countries

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

Development administration emerged because of the wish for administrative development in the developing countries, the large financial and technical assistance given to them, for example under the USAID programme, and the research funding available to scholars such as the Comparative Administration Group. An abundance of knowledge and managerial skills in developing countries was not the reason, since the scarcity of such skills was what the assistance was meant to remove, so this is the reason not attributed to its emergence.

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75.

Which one of the following machineries was created in Britain in 1967 to examine complaints of corruption ?

A.Whitley Council
B.Ombudsman
C.Parliamentary Commissioner
D.Procurator-General

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The machinery created in Britain in 1967 to examine complaints against maladministration was the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration. Ombudsman is the general name of the institution, which began in Sweden in 1809, and the British office is the Parliamentary Commissioner, which is the specific title and the keyed answer. The Whitley Councils are joint consultative bodies for civil service staff, and the Procurator-General belongs to the Soviet system. In Britain the post was created by the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967, and its first holder was Sir Edmund Compton.

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76.

Assertion (A) : The Riggsian model of prismatic society is primarily an explanation of the ecology of Thailand.

Reason (R) : Riggs' two-dimensional approach means that the prismatic model would include any society that is differentiated but malintegrated.

A.Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B.Both (A) and (R) are correct, 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.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Both statements are true, but the reason does not explain the assertion. Riggs developed the prismatic model from his study of Thailand, and its ecology is drawn from there, and the two-dimensional approach of differentiation and integration means the model includes any society that is differentiated but malintegrated. The second statement gives a general scope of the model and does not explain why it is primarily drawn from Thai ecology, so option B is correct.

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77.

Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

List - I	List - II
(a) Parliamentary Commissioner	(i) France
(b) Administrative Courts	(ii) Russia
(c) Ombudsman	(iii) Britain
(d) Procurator System	(iv) USA
	(v) Sweden

A.(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
B.(v) (i) (iii) (ii)
C.(iii) (i) (v) (ii)
D.(ii) (iv) (iii) (v)

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

The Parliamentary Commissioner is a British institution (iii), administrative courts are a French feature (i), the Ombudsman comes from Sweden (v), and the Procurator system belongs to Russia, the former Soviet Union (ii). The code is (iii) (i) (v) (ii). The other codes give the Ombudsman to Britain or the Parliamentary Commissioner to France, which mix up the origin of these institutions. The Swedish office of 1809 is the original Ombudsman, the Soviet procuracy supervised legality of administrative acts, and the French Conseil d'Etat and the administrative courts try cases against public bodies under a separate body of administrative law.

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78.

Match List - I with List - II and select the correct answer by using the codes :

List - I	List - II
(a) F.W. Riggs	(i) Development Administration
(b) Lucian Pye	(ii) Administrative Reform
(c) Gerald Caiden	(iii) Frontiers of Development Administration
(d) O.P. Dwivedi	(iv) Aspects of Political Development

A.(ii) (i) (iii) (iv)
B.(iv) (ii) (i) (iii)
C.(iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
D.(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: C

F. W. Riggs wrote Frontiers of Development Administration (iii), Lucian Pye wrote on Aspects of Political Development (iv), Gerald Caiden wrote on Administrative Reform (ii), and O. P. Dwivedi wrote on Development Administration (i). The code is (iii) (iv) (ii) (i). The first code gives Riggs Administrative Reform, the second gives him Political Development, and the fourth gives him Development Administration, none of which is his title in this list.

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79.

Assertion (A) : Comparative Public Administration is productive and active in nature.

Reason (R) : The idea of decline of Comparative Public Administration is premature, although Comparative Public Administration does not appear to have reached a critical point of development.

A.Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
B.Both (A) and (R) are correct, 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.

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: B

Both statements are correct but the reason does not explain the assertion. Comparative public administration has been productive and active, and the idea that it has declined is premature even though it has not yet reached a critical point of development.

The reason talks about the decline being premature and so is a comment on the state of the field, not a cause of its productivity. The options calling either statement false are wrong, and the option saying the reason explains the assertion is wrong.

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80.

According to Ferrel Heady, which of the following is not a feature of the administrative systems of the developing countries ?

A.Colonial legacy
B.Lack of technical competence
C.Formalism
D.Operational autonomy

Exam Year(s)

UGC NET - 2012,

Answer: D

According to Ferrel Heady, operational autonomy is not a feature of the administrative systems of developing countries. Heady listed the features as a colonial legacy, a lack of technical competence, formalism, and a gap between the form and the practice, with the systems more under outside control than autonomous.

Colonial legacy, lack of technical competence and formalism are therefore real features and wrong as answers to a question asking for the one that is not.

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