Provide answers to the following questions. In providing your answers, draw on appropriate material from the various assigned readings and lectures. Be sure to use excellent prose and grammar in providing your responses. Also, your essays should incorporate APA citation style guidelines in citing sources. Remember that if you use another author’s ideas you must cite the original work, and if you use another author’s words, those words should be placed into quotation marks and appropriately cited as well. Each of your answers should be double spaced, and use standard Word formatting. Answer the following three questions. Each answer should be about 1 page in length.
- Describe the evolution of the American administrative state. What factors have contributed to its growth, and what efforts have been taken by the political branches of government to maintain control over it?
- Define the term “politics/administration dichotomy.” What was the historical context in which it was originated? In what sense can the politics/administration dichotomy be seen as a theory of democracy? In other words, why did advocates of the dichotomy feel it was important to advance this theory?
- What are public service values? What role should these values play in the practice of public administration?