Public Administration

Paper-I :
Administrative Theory
The historical dimension of Public Administration - Wilsons Vision. Major paradigms
in the evolution of the discipline and its present status. British philosophy of Public
Administration.
Re-conceptualization of Public Administration: (i)Minnowbrook I, Minnowbrook II,
Minnowbrook III; (ii) Development Administration and its changing profile; (iii)
Comparative Public Administration and the search for theories; (iv) Gender and
administration.
Comparative study of Administrative systems: U.K., France, U.S.A, Brazil and China -
developments
since 1980s.
Masters of Administrative thought and critical evaluation of their contributions: F. W.
Taylor, Karl
Marx, Max Weber, Chester I. Barnard, M.P Follett, Elton Mayo, Herbert A. Simon,
Harold Lasswell,
Fred W. Riggs, Geoffrey Vickers, Dwight Waldo, Yehezkel Dror.
Non-Western tradition in Public Administration: Sun-tzu, M. K. Gandhi, Mao, Nyerere.
Theories of Public Administration: (i) theories of public control of bureaucracy; (ii)
theories of
bureaucratic politics; (iii) Public Institutional Theory; (iv) theories of public
management; (v) theories of
public choice; (vi) post-positivist theories (a) Critical Theory of Public
Organization, (b)
Postmodernism and Poststructuralism in Public Administration.
Public Administration and governance (i) government and governance; (ii) Good
Governance-
concept, evolution and applications; (iii) Democratic Governance-concept and
contextualization; (iv)
E-Government, E-Governance and M-Governance.
(i) Organization Theory: Classical, Neo-Classical, Systems, Structural, Structural-
Functional, neo-
Human Relations, Pluralist, Organizational- Social Psychological, Strategic-
contingencies, Market,
Interpretive-Critical.
(ii) Organizational decision-making: (a) Synoptic or Rational- Deductive (Dewey); (b)
Incremental and Mutual Partisan Adjustment (C.E. Lindblom); (c) Disjointed
Incremental (D. Braybrooke and C.E. Lindblom); (d) Mixed Scanning (A. Etzioni).
Administration and organizational culture- social political and economic
determinants.
Modern Organization in society- creativity factor- motivation and needs (Abraham
Maslow, R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor, John Herzberg) alternative
organizational assumptions about people and Psychological Contract: Rational
Economic Man, Social Man, Self-Actualizing Man, Complex Man Aliens and Locals.
Leadership as: Influential Increment, manager of environmental contingencies, event
management, situated action, management of meaning, negotiation, upward
influence.
Approaches to organizational communication (processes of socialization, conflict
management,
organizational change and leadership, organizational diversity, technology).
Organizational rationality: theoretical evolution.
Public Policy Making Concepts, models and its critique.
Public Policy Analysis Various approaches at:
Formulation stage (a) Output Studies (Dawson and Robinson), (b) Policy content
(T.A.Lowi, Ira
Sharkansky),
Implementation (N.Pressman, A. Wildavsky, George C. Edwards),
Evaluation (David Nachmias, H.E.Freeman and Ilene N. Bernstein).
New developments in policy analysis (Paul A. Sabatier and J.W.Kingdon).
Rethinking the development dynamics: `Anti-Development Thesis; democracy,
bureaucracy and
development; development and Non-State Actors; Sovereign State, Supermarket
State and
development; human development; gendered development.
Administration in society-(i) administrators; promoters, resisters, accommodators,
detractors; (ii)
accountability and control-(a) legislative, executive and judicial control, (b) role of
media, civil society organizations and NGOs, (c) judicial activism, (d) whistle blowers,
(e) Ombudsman, (f) Citizens Charter, Right to Information, Social Audit.
Techniques of Administrative Improvement (i) Social Impact Assessment, (ii) CBA,
(iii) Network
Analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM, (iv) Forms of budget and budgetary processes; (v) MBO;
(vi) Public Program Evaluation.
Ethics in Governance-issues and institutions; Public Administrators ethical
involvement Applied
ethical choice and its tools and concepts; Administrative corruption-problems and
remedies;
Relationship between political and career executives-ethical dimensions.
Administrative Law - Meaning, scope and significance; Administrative Law in
France, U. K. and
Germany.
Concept and theories of Local Government - Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart
Mill, M.K.Gandhi,
Cynthia Cockburn, Manuel Castells.
Public Administration: emerging crisis and new directions.



PAPER II: Indian Administration
Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilyas Arthashastra; Artha as political economy; law seven elements of State;
Civil Service and Personnel Administration; Corruption: forms and redressal.
Medieval Administration: Administrative thought: (a) Barni: Tariak-i-ferozeshahi,
Fatwa-i-Jahandari; (b) Abul Fazal: Ain-i-Akbari.
Administrative Practices: (a) Sher Shah: Land Revenue Administration; (b) Akbar:
Secular
Administration; Land Revenue Administration.
Salient features of Medieval administration.
British Influence: Legacy of British Rule in politics and administration: Indianization of
public services, revenue administration, district administration, Local Self
Government.
Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of Government:
Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy
and democracy; Bureaucracy and development. Gandhian and Nehruvian approaches
to development: critical assessment.
Planning in India:
Origins; Models; Institutions and Mechanisms; Planning Commission; National
Development Council;
Process of plan formulation at the Union, the state and local levels.
Public Sector Undertakings: Growth and decline; Impact of liberalization and
privatization; divestment; status of Nav Ratna undertakings; issues in autonomy,
accountability and control.
Union Government and Administration:
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary structure, functions, work processes; Cabinet
Secretariat; Prime
Ministers Office; Central Secretariat; Ministries and Departments; Boards;
Commissions; Attached
Offices; Field Organizations; Regulatory Authorities (SEBI, IRDA, TRAI etc.)
State Government and Administration:
Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat;
Directorates; State
Finance Commissions, State control over local governments.
Emerging Trends in Union-State Relations:
Recent trends in inter and intra governmental relations in the context of
federalism;
Legislative, administrative and financial relations; Finance Commission; Chief
Ministerialization of
State Governments in the contexts of liberalization and coalition governments.
District Administration since Independence:
Changing role of the Collector; state-local relations; imperatives of development
management and law
and order administration; district administration and democratic decentralization.
Civil Services:
Constitutional position; structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building;
Good Governance
initiatives; recommendations of the 5th and 6th Pay Commissions on Civil Services;
code of conduct
and discipline; staff associations; political rights; civil service neutrality; civil service
activism;
administrative corruption.
Grievance Redressal Mechanism:
Lok Pal, Lok Ayukta, CVC, State Vigilance Commissions, Minorities Commission,
Womens
Commission, SC/ST Commission.
Financial Management:
Budget as a political instrument; budget and administered prices; role of finance
ministry and RBI in
monetary and fiscal area; budgetary process; Parliamentary control of public
expenditure; accounting
techniques; audit; role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and
Auditor General of
India.
Administrative Reforms since Independence:
Major concerns; important committees and commissions; a critical review of ARC I
and ARC II;
problems of implementation; Performance Mointoring and Evaluation Systems
(PMES) and Results
Framework Document(RFD); social and political obstacles to reform.
Rural Development:
Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narain; institutions and
agencies since
independence; rural development programmes; foci and strategies;
decentralization and Panchayati
Raj; 73rd Constitutional Amendment and PESA Act.
Urban Local Government:
Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th
Constitutional
Amendment; Global-local debate; New Localism; development dynamics, politics
and administration
with special reference to city management; specialized agencies in urban
development.
Social Welfare Administration:
Social policies and legislations since Independence; institutions and agencies;
vertical national
development programmes in the areas of poverty alleviation; employment
generation, rural and urban
housing, health, education and womens empowerment. Role of NGOs SHGs. Tribal
development
administration.
Human Rights Administration:
National Human Rights Commission; State Human Rights Commissions; role of
civil liberty groups.
Law and Order Administration:
British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; role of central
and state agencies
including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering
insurgency and
terrorism; criminalization of politics and administration; police-public relations;
reforms in Police.
Crisis Administration:
Disaster management nature and types of disasters role of governments, NGOs
Mass Media;
institutional framework for disaster management at the central, state and local
levels.
Water management in the context of emerging problems of Waterlordism;
Environment and sustainable development.
Contemporary issues in Indian Administration:
Problems of administration in coalition regimes; SEZ; land acquisition for
development; women in
administration glass ceiling and sexual violence; transparency and RTI; liberal
economic reforms;
NGOs, CSOs and development; corporate social responsibility.