CSS Governance & Public Policies Past Paper 2019
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Identify the main differences between ‘public management’ and ‘private management’; and between ‘public governance’ and ‘corporate governance’.
Q.3. In many areas, governments increasingly have been moving toward partnership working across the public and private sectors. What are the main governance implications of this trend for the delivery of public services?
Q.4. Discuss the ways in which the legislative and judicial branches interact with the bureaucracy. Explain why these interventions are necessary and useful?
Q.5. How can bureaucrats and bureaucracies be held accountable? By whom and by what means can they be held accountable? Describe the steps and the measures that can be taken to increase bureaucratic accountability. How do the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government hold bureaucrats and bureaucracies accountable?
Q.6. Choose a policy issue and examine it in the light of the policy cycle. Be sure to discuss the relevance of each of the following in your answer: agenda setting, policy formulation, policy adoption, policy implementation, policy evaluation, policy change, and policy termination. Also, discuss the most important considerations at each step.
Q.7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a federal system of governments?
Q.8. The traditional theory of policy-making is that legislators make policy and public managers carry it out. However, most scholars argue that this politics/administration dichotomy does not accurately reflect the policy-making process in most contemporary public administration environments.
i. How do public managers engage in policy making?
ii. How do legislators engage in policy implementation?
iii. Is the politics/administration dichotomy still valid today? Why or why not?
iv. Provide one detailed example in an area with which you are familiar.