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Riggs’ ‘Prismatic Model’ of public administration is used to analyze administrative behavior in:
AHighly industrialized Western states
BAgrarian ancient empires
CDeveloping/Transitional societies
DTribal societies exclusively
The ‘Minnowbrook Conference’ of 1968 led by Dwight Waldo gave birth to which movement in public administration?
ANew Public Management (NPM)
BScientific Management Movement
CClassical Administrative Theory
DNew Public Administration (NPA)
The Bretton Woods Conference of 1944 established which two major international financial institutions?
AInternational Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
BWorld Trade Organization (WTO) and League of Nations
CUnited Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB)
DFederal Reserve and European Central Bank
Mercantilism as an International Political Economy perspective posits that economic activity should serve to increase:
AGlobal free market competition
BState power and wealth relative to other nations
CClassless international communism
DIndividual consumer sovereignty exclusively
Dependency Theory in International Political Economy was developed to explain economic stagnation in Latin America and the Global South by dividing the world into:
AEast and West economic blocs
BNorth and South military alliances
CCore (developed nations) and Periphery (underdeveloped nations)
DDemocratic and Autocratic trade systems
The term ‘Civic Culture’, based on empirical comparative studies of political attitudes across nations, was formulated by:
ALucian Pye and Sidney Verba
BSamuel Huntington and Robert Dahl
CDavid Easton and Karl Deutsch
DGabriel Almond and Sidney Verba
Immanuel Wallerstein expanded Dependency Theory into which comprehensive sociological and economic theory?
AComplex Interdependence Theory
BNeorealist Stability Theory
CStructural Adjustment Framework
DWorld-Systems Theory
Who is widely recognized as the ‘Father of Public Administration’ as an independent academic discipline?
AWoodrow Wilson
BLuther Gulick
CHenri Fayol
DMax Weber
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signed in 1947 was replaced in 1995 by the:
AWorld Trade Organization (WTO)
BInternational Monetary Fund (IMF)
COrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
DWorld Economic Forum (WEF)
Who introduced the concept of ‘Soft Power’ in international relations and political theory?
AJoseph Nye
BRobert Keohane
CSamuel Huntington
DFrancis Fukuyama