PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

PART A

PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION

1. Introduction : Meaning, scope and significance. Evolution and status of the

discipline. Comparative Public Administration and Development Administration.

Public and Private Administration: State versus market debate. New Pubic

Administration. New Public Management perspective.

2. Basic concepts and principles : Organisation, hierarchy, Unity of command,

Span of control, Authority and Responsibility, Co-ordination, Centralization and

Decentralization, Delegation, Supervision, Line and Staff.

3. Theories of Administration : Scientific Management (Taylor and the Scientific

Managment Movement), Classical Theory (Fayol, Urwick, Gulick and others)

Bureaucratic Theory (Weber and his critics). Ideas of Mary Parker Follett and

C.I. Barnard; Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others). Behavioral

Approach, Systems approach.

4. Administrative Behaviour : Decision making with special reference to H.

Simon, communication and control, leadership theories. Theories of motivation

(Maslow and Herzberg)

5. Accountability and Control : The concepts of Accountability and control :

Legislative, executive and judicial control. Citizen and Administration: Role of

civil society, people’s participation and Right to Information.

6. Administrative Systems : Comparative administrative features of USA, Great

Britain, France and Japan.

7. Personnel Administration : Role of Civil Service in developing societies;

position classification, Recuritment, Training, Promotion, Pay and Service

conditions. Relations with the Political Executive; Administrative Ethics.

8. Financial Administration : Budget: Concepts and forms. Formulation and

execution of budget, deficit financing and public debt, Accounts and Audit.

9. Union Government and Administration in India. British legacy :

Constitutional context of Indian Administration; The President, Prime Minister

and the Council of Ministers; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat, Prime

Minister’s Office, Planning Commission; Finance Commission; Election

Commission; Comptroller and Auditor-General of India. Public enterprises:

Patterns, role performance and impact of liberalization.

10. Civil Services in India : Recruitment to All India and Central Services. Union

Public Service Commission; Training of Civil Servants. Generalists and

Specialists. Minister-Civil Servant relationship.

11. State and District Administration : Governor, Chief Minister, Secretariat, Chief

Secretary, Directorates, District Collector: changing role.

12. Local Government : Panchayati Raj and Urban local Government: Main

features, structures, finances and problem areas. 73rd and 74th Constitutional

Amendements.

PART B

MAIN EXAMINATION

PAPER – I

Administrative Theory

1. Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration;

Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its

present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach;

Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance:

concept and application; New Public Management.

2. Administrative Thought: Scientific Management and Scientific Management

movement; Classical Theory; Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and

post-Weberian Developments; Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett);

Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others); Functions of the Executive

(C.I. Barnard); Simon’s decision-making theory; Participative Management

(R. Likert, C.Argyris, D.McGregor).

3. Administrative Behaviour: Process and techniques of decision-making;

Communication; Morale; Motivation Theories – content, process and

contemporary; Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.

4. Organisations: Theories – systems, contingency; Structure and forms:

Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies, Boards and

Commissions; Ad hoc and advisory bodies; Headquarters and Field

relationships; Regulatory Authorities; Public - Private Partnerships.

5. Accountability and control: Concepts of accountability and control;

Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration; Citizen and

Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil

society; Citizen’s Charters; Right to Information; Social audit.

6. Administrative Law: Meaning, scope and significance; Dicey on

Administrative law; Delegated legislation; Administrative Tribunals.

7. Comparative Public Administration: Historical and sociological factors

affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different

countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and

administration; Riggsian models and their critique.

8. Development Dynamics: Concept of development; Changing profile of

development administration; ‘Anti-development thesis’; Bureaucracy and

development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation

on administration in developing countries; Women and development - the

self-help group movement.

9. Personnel Administration: Importance of human resource development;

Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline,

performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions; employer employee

relations, grievance redressal mechanism; Code of conduct; Administrative ethics.

10. Public Policy: Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes of

conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review

and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation.

11. Techniques of Administrative Improvement: Organisation and methods,

Work study and work management; e-governance and information technology;

Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.

12. Financial Administration: Monetary and fiscal policies; Public borrowings

and public debt Budgets - types and forms; Budgetary process; Financial

accountability; Accounts and audit.

PAPER - II

Indian Administration

1. Evolution of Indian Administration: Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal

administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration -

Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration,

local self-government.

2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government: Salient

features and value premises;Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy

and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.

3. Public Sector Undertakings: Public sector in modern India; Forms of Public

Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control;

Impact of liberalization and privatization.

4. Union Government and Administration: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary -

structure, functions, work processes; Recent trends; Intragovernmental

relations; Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Minister’s Office; Central Secretariat;

Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached offices; Field

organizations.

5. Plans and Priorities: Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions

of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; ‘Indicative’

planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels; Constitutional

Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development

and social justice.

6. State Government and Administration: Union-State administrative,

legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor;

Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat;

Directorates.

7. District Administration since Independence: Changing role of the Collector;

Union-state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law

and order administration; District administration and democratic

decentralization.

8. Civil Services: Constitutional position; Structure, recruitment, training and

capacity-building; Good governance initiatives; Code of conduct and discipline;

Staff associations; Political rights; Grievance redressal mechanism; Civil

service neutrality; Civil service activism.

9. Financial Management: Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary

control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal

area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts

and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

10. Administrative Reforms since Independence: Major concerns; Important

Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human

resource development; Problems of implementation.

11. Rural Development: Institutions and agencies since independence; Rural

development programmes: foci and strategies; Decentralization and

Panchayati Raj; 73rd Constitutional amendment.

12. 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.

13. 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; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public

relations; Reforms in Police.

14. Significant issues in Indian Administration: Values in public service;

Regulatory Commissions; National Human Rights Commission; Problems of

administration in coalition regimes; Citizen-administration interface; Corruption

and administration; Disaster management.