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Public Administration Syllabus Only
Public Administration Syllabus Only
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
1. Meaning, Scope and Significance of Public Administration
2. Wilsons Vision of Public Administration
3. Evolution of the Discipline and its Present Status
4. New Public Administration
5. Public Choice Approach
6. Challenges of Liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation
7. Good Governance: Concept and Application
8. New Public Management
Chapter 2: ADMINISTRATIVE THOUGHT
1. Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement
2. Classical Theory
3. Webers Bureaucratic Model Its Critique and PostWeberian Developments
4. Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett)
5. Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others)
6. Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard)
7. Simons Decisionmaking Theory
8. Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor)
Chapter 3: ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOUR
1. Process and Techniques of Decision-making
2. Communication
3. Morale
4. Motivation TheoriesContent, Process and Contemporary
5. Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern
Chapter 4: ORGANISATIONS
1. TheoriesSystems, Contingency
2. Structure and Forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies
3. Boards and Commissions
4. Ad hoc and Advisory bodies
5. Headquarters and Field Relationships
6. Regulatory
7. Authorities
8. PublicPrivate Partnerships
Chapter 5: ACCOUNTABILITY AND CONTROL
1. Concepts of Accountability and Control
2. Legislative, Executive and Judicial Control over Administration
3. Citizen and Administration
4. Role of Media, Interest Groups, Voluntary Organizations
5. Civil Society
6. Citizens Charters
7. Right to Information
8. Social Audit
Chapter 6: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
1. Meaning, Scope and Significance
2. Dicey on Administrative Law
3. Delegated Legislation
4. Administrative Tribunals
5. District Administration
6. Democratic Decentralization
Chapter 8: CIVIL SERVICES
1. Constitutional Position
2. Structure, Recruitment, Training and CapacityBuilding
3. Good Governance Initiatives
4. Code of Conduct and Discipline
5. Staff Associations
6. Political Rights
7. Grievance Redressal Mechanism
8. Civil Service Neutrality
9. Civil Service Activism
Chapter 9: FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Budget as a Political Instrument
2. Parliamentary Control of Public Expenditure
3. Role of Finance Ministry in Monetary and Fiscal Area
4. Accounting Techniques
5. Audit
6. Role of Controller General of Accounts
7. Role of Comptroller and Auditor General of India
Chapter 10: ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS SINCE INDEPENDENCE
1. Major Concerns
2. Important Committees and Commissions
3. Reforms in Financial Management and Human Resource Development
4. Problems of Implementation
Chapter 11: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
1. Institutions and Agencies since Independence
2. Rural Development Programmes: Foci and Strategies
3. Decentralization and Panchayati Raj
4. 73rd Constitutional Amendment
Chapter 12: URBAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT
1. Municipal Governance: Main Features, Structures, Finance and Problem Areas
2. 74th Constitutional Amendment
3. GlobalLocal Debate
4. New Localism
5. Development Dynamics, Politics and Administration with Special Reference to City
Management
Chapter 13: LAW AND ORDER ADMINISTRATION
1. British Legacy
2. National Police Commission
3. Investigative Agencies
4. Role of Central and State Agencies including Paramilitary Forces in Maintenance of
Law and Order and countering Insurgency and Terrorism
5. Criminalisation of Politics and Administration (lolz)
6. PolicePublic Relations
7. Reforms in Police
Chapter 14: SIGNIFICANT ISSUES IN INDIAN ADMINISTRATION
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