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Zorluk: KolayControl of Civil Service and Bureaucratic Problems

Under modern democratic administration, which executive control mechanism enables a government minister to ensure administrative efficiency and political accountability within a government ministry?

  1. Issuing administrative directives and policy guidelines to civil servantsCevap
  2. B
    Issuing a writ of mandamus against civil servants who fail to perform duties
  3. C
    Auditing departmental financial accounts through legislative standing committees
  4. D
    Investigating citizen petitions through the Ombudsman institution

Cevap

Issuing administrative directives and policy guidelines to civil servants is the primary internal executive mechanism through which a minister controls civil service administration within a department.
Ministers serve as political heads of government ministries and exercise internal executive control by issuing administrative policies, regulations, and departmental directives that civil servants are obligated to carry out.

Adım Adım Çözüm

1
Identify the controlling organ specified in the prompt
The prompt asks specifically about executive control exercised directly by a government minister.
Different organs of government (legislative, executive, judicial, extra-ministerial) exercise distinct controls over the civil service.
2
Evaluate the mechanism matching internal executive control
Directives, departmental policies, and ministerial oversight represent direct executive supervision over non-elected bureaucrats.
Administrative directives ensure that civil servants execute public policy in alignment with executive policy priorities.

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Executive Control over Civil Service
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