Public Administration

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.

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.

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.

Administrative Behaviour

• Decision making with special reference to H. Simon, communication and control, leadership theories.
• Theories of motivation (Maslow and Herzberg)

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.

Administrative Systems

• Comparative administrative features of USA, Great Britain, France and Japan.

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.

Financial Administration

• Budget: Concepts and forms.
• Formulation and execution of budget, deficit financing and public debt, Accounts and Audit.

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.

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.

State and District Administration

• Governor, Chief Minister, Secretariat, Chief Secretary, Directorates, District Collector: changing role.

Local Government

• Panchayati Raj and Urban local Government: Main features structures, finances and problem areas.
• 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments.