Bureaucracy MCQs

Option A: Committee work has increased

Option B: Bureaucracy is required to perform judicial work

Option C: Delegated legislation has increased

Option D: Ministers have become experts

Correct Answer: Ministers have become experts ✔

Option A: Civil servants be given good salaries

Option B: Status and position of civil servants should be kept high

Option C: Civil servants should be given security of service

Option D: Bureaucrats should be allowed to accept grafts

Correct Answer: Bureaucrats should be allowed to accept grafts ✔

Option A: They are allowed to work closely with Ministers

Option B: They are provided medical facilities

Option C: They are given residential houses

Option D: They are given leave travel concession

Correct Answer: They are allowed to work closely with Ministers ✔

Option A: To recruit politically unconscious people

Option B: To provide retirement facilities

Option C: To provide incentives while in service

Option D: To pay high salaries and allowances

Correct Answer: To recruit politically unconscious people ✔

Option A: Democratic governments

Option B: Dictatorial system of governments

Option C: All governments

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: All governments ✔

Option A: An ancient institution

Option B: A modern phenomenon

Option C: The product of middle age feudal system

Option D: None of These

Correct Answer: An ancient institution ✔

Option A: Elected representatives

Option B: Officials

Option C: Nominated representatives

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Officials ✔

Option A: China

Option B: Rome

Option C: India

Option D: All the above

Correct Answer: All the above ✔

Option A: Collection of taxes

Option B: Audit of accounts

Option C: Inspection of factories

Option D: All the above functions and many other too

Correct Answer: All the above functions and many other too ✔

Option A: Greatly increased

Option B: Considerably declined

Option C: Bneither increased nor declined

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Greatly increased ✔

Option A: Taking preventive steps to avoid the processes through which the political parties opposed to the Government are lekely to improve their chances in the elections

Option B: Taking effective measures to prevent the process of development of the private sector

Option C: Effective mobilization and management of resources to achieve the accepted sociopolitical and economic goals of the nation

Option D: Planning in advance the strategies that are to be followed for defeating the electoral calculations of the political parties opposed to the government

Correct Answer: Effective mobilization and management of resources to achieve the accepted sociopolitical and economic goals of the nation ✔

Option A: The state has assumed police and military functions

Option B: The state has assumed greater responsibilities due to adoption of goal of ‘welfare state’

Option C: The complexity of administration has necessitated services of experts

Option D: The growth of delegated legislation has added to the importance of civil service

Correct Answer: The state has assumed police and military functions ✔

Option A: Taking preventive steps to avoid the processes through which the political parties opposed to the Government are lekely to improve their chances in the elections

Option B: Taking effective measures to prevent the process of development of the private sector

Option C: Effective mobilization and management of resources to achieve the accepted sociopolitical and economic goals of the nation

Option D: Planning in advance the strategies that are to be followed for defeating the electoral calculations of the political parties opposed to the government

Correct Answer: Effective mobilization and management of resources to achieve the accepted sociopolitical and economic goals of the nation ✔

Option A: Laski

Option B: Barker

Option C: Green

Option D: Liner

Correct Answer: Laski ✔

Option A: A set of government officials, possessed of certain traits of excessive formality, the use of verbiage and jargon as the basis of communication, inflexibility of procedure and insistence on the powers of their office

Option B: A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement

Option C: A particular pattern of administrative behaviour, associated with certain types of social organization and identificable by reference to a constellation of objective criteria

Option D: The activity concerned with the implementation of policies by the direction or management of efforts of individuals and groups towards specific goals

Correct Answer: A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement ✔

Option A: Ramway Macdonald

Option B: Ramsay Muir

Option C: William Beveridge

Option D: Lord Hewart

Correct Answer: Ramsay Muir ✔

Option A: Lord Hewart

Option B: Ramsay Munir

Option C: Sir William Beveridge

Option D: Harold Laski

Correct Answer: Lord Hewart ✔

Option A: They formulate the budget proposals

Option B: They get the budget proposals approved by the Legislature

Option C: They implement the budget proposals after they are approved by the legislature

Option D: All the above functions

Correct Answer: They get the budget proposals approved by the Legislature ✔

Option A: Prepared by the civil servants but introduced by the ministers

Option B: Prepared as well as introduced by the civil servants

Option C: Prepared as well as introduced by the ministers

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Prepared by the civil servants but introduced by the ministers ✔

Option A: National emergencies like war, natural calamities, etC.

Option B: Enormous growth in the functions of the Parliament resulting in enactment of skeleton laws

Option C: Introduction of universal franchise

Option D: Making of civil services a life long career

Correct Answer: Introduction of universal franchise ✔

Option A: Only administrative functions

Option B: Legislative as well as financial functions

Option C: Only judicial function

Option D: All the above types of functions

Correct Answer: All the above types of functions ✔

Option A: Only those powers which are vested in it

Option B: Only those powers which are vested in the Ministers

Option C: Powers which are vested in it as well as powers vested in the ministers

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Powers which are vested in it as well as powers vested in the ministers ✔

Option A: It enforces the laws passed by the legislature

Option B: It prepares the bills for the approval of the legislature

Option C: It prepares the budget for the country

Option D: It recommends to the head of the state cases for grant of pardon

Correct Answer: It recommends to the head of the state cases for grant of pardon ✔

Option A: Increase in the powers of the bureaucracy

Option B: Decline in the powers of the bureaucracy

Option C: Either increase nor decline in the powers of bureaucracy

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Increase in the powers of the bureaucracy ✔

Option A: Increase in the powers of the bureaucracy

Option B: Decline in the powers of the bureaucracy

Option C: Beither increase nor decline in the powers of bureaucracy

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Increase in the powers of the bureaucracy ✔

Option A: They assist the head of the state in appointment of judges

Option B: They ensure that rule of law prevails in the country

Option C: The take number of administrative and quasi-judicial decisions of final nature

Option D: They take administrative and quasi-judicial decisions which can be challenged only in the courts

Correct Answer: The take number of administrative and quasi-judicial decisions of final nature ✔

Option A: Rests with the Head of the State

Option B: Rests with the Council of Ministers

Option C: Rests with Parliament

Option D: With all the above

Correct Answer: Rests with Parliament ✔

Option A: Considerably declined

Option B: Enormously increased

Option C: Not undergone any changes

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Enormously increased ✔

Option A: Herman Finer

Option B: Ramsay Muir

Option C: James Bryce

Option D: Iver Jennings

Correct Answer: Herman Finer ✔

Option A: Work-load with government has increased

Option B: States are performing both compulsory and optional functions

Option C: States have become police states

Option D: The Ministers are amateurs

Correct Answer: The Ministers are amateurs ✔

Option A: It should help political executive in the implementation of programmes

Option B: It should properly guide political executive

Option C: It should keep its records properly

Option D: It should avoid giving classified information to political executive

Correct Answer: It should avoid giving classified information to political executive ✔

Option A: To help maintaining law and order

Option B: To help preparing international treaties

Option C: To help preparing national budget

Option D: To promulgate ordinances

Correct Answer: To promulgate ordinances ✔

Option A: To keep financial stability

Option B: To help in maintaining sound economy

Option C: To take their grievances to the Members of Parliament

Option D: To properly perform quasi-judicial allotted functions

Correct Answer: To take their grievances to the Members of Parliament ✔

Option A: To guide the Ministers

Option B: To avoid lag between law and its implementation

Option C: To prepare sub-rules and regulations for the laws

Option D: To help in maintaining financial stability

Correct Answer: To avoid the political head to the extent possible ✔

Option A: It should properly scrutinize ligislative proposals

Option B: It should vigorously implement laws

Option C: It should be inelastic in law implementation

Option D: It should try to be maximum efficient

Correct Answer: It should be inelastic in law implementation ✔

Option A: Parliamentary form of Government

Option B: Presidential form of Government

Option C: Socialist system

Option D: Democratic system

Correct Answer: All forms and systems ✔

Option A: Implement laws in letters

Option B: Implement laws in spirit

Option C: Be too rigid

Option D: Be flexible

Correct Answer: Implement laws in spirit ✔

Option A: It should avoid confrontation with political executive

Option B: It should guide Ministers

Option C: It should provide factural data to the executive

Option D: It should insist to the last on its viewpoint

Correct Answer: It should insist to the last on its viewpoint ✔

Option A: Political ideology

Option B: Political leadership

Option C: Farm of Government

Option D: Head of the state

Correct Answer: Political ideology ✔

Option A: It should be impartial

Option B: It should be too rigid

Option C: It should implment laws in goad spirit

Option D: It should work in close cooperation with the political executive

Correct Answer: It should be too rigid ✔

Option A: U.S.S.R.

Option B: India

Option C: England

Option D: Canada

Correct Answer: U.S.S.R. ✔

Option A: All public servants

Option B: Only high ranking public servants

Option C: Only middle level civil servants

Option D: Only lower level civil servants

Correct Answer: All public servants ✔

Option A: Members of Parliament

Option B: Judges of the Supreme Court

Option C: Top political leaders

Option D: All civil servants

Correct Answer: All civil servants ✔

Option A: Permanent executive

Option B: Political executive

Option C: Nominal Executive

Option D: De-jure executive

Correct Answer: Permanent executive ✔