Which one of the following descriptions gives a definition of bureaucracy?

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
B. A career based appointed administrative service of fixed status and tenure with salary limited to rank and a known rank order of advancement
C. A particular pattern of administrative behaviour, associated with certain types of social organization and identificable by reference to a constellation of objective criteria
D. The activity concerned with the implementation of policies by the direction or management of efforts of individuals and groups towards specific goals

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From committed bureaucracy is understood a bureaucracy which has commitment to:
A. Political ideology
B. Political leadership
C. Farm of Government
D. Head of the state
E. Head of the Government
Which one of the following statements gives a correct definition of a constitution?
A. The rule and procedures concerning the relationships among the structures of Government and their principal powers and functions
B. A fundamental statement of laws governing the citizens’s political rights, the political institutions, their functions and their relationships within a particular political community
C. A primary source of constitutional law, which serves as a guide for the decisions of the courts of law which interpret the rules
D. The ordering of political processes and institutions on the basic of a document that lays down the pattern of formal political institutions and embodies the basic political norms of a society
Which one of the following is not important function performed by bureaucracy?
A. It should properly scrutinize ligislative proposals
B. It should vigorously implement laws
C. It should be inelastic in law implementation
D. It should try to be maximum efficient
Which one of following is not a function of the bureaucracy:
A. To guide the Ministers
B. To avoid lag between law and its implementation
C. To prepare sub-rules and regulations for the laws
D. To help in maintaining financial stability
E. To avoid the political head to the extent possible
Which one of the following functions of the bureaucracy has been wrongly listed?
A. It enforces the laws passed by the legislature
B. It prepares the bills for the approval of the legislature
C. It prepares the budget for the country
D. It recommends to the head of the state cases for grant of pardon
Which one of the following has not been in any way responsible for increase in the powers of bureaucracy?
A. National emergencies like war, natural calamities, etC.
B. Enormous growth in the functions of the Parliament resulting in enactment of skeleton laws
C. Introduction of universal franchise
D. Making of civil services a life long career
In view of the growing power of the bureaucracy, which one of the following writers has that a “no form of despotism” has emerged?
A. Lord Hewart
B. Ramsay Munir
C. Sir William Beveridge
D. Harold Laski
In the context of a democratic political system devoted to the cause of speedy socio-economic progress through governmental action, which one of the following actions is appropriate for bureaucracy?
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
B. Taking effective measures to prevent the process of development of the private sector
C. Effective mobilization and management of resources to achieve the accepted sociopolitical and economic goals of the nation
D. Planning in advance the strategies that are to be followed for defeating the electoral calculations of the political parties opposed to the government
Which one of the following is not necessary for impartiality of bureaucracy?
A. Civil servants be given good salaries
B. Status and position of civil servants should be kept high
C. Civil servants should be given security of service
D. Bureaucrats should be allowed to accept grafts
E. Bureaucrats should be given good pension
Which one of the following is not an important cause for increased work of bureaucracy?
A. Committee work has increased
B. Bureaucracy is required to perform judicial work
C. Delegated legislation has increased
D. Ministers have become experts
E. Volume of legislative work has increased