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    This document outlines the topics covered in Paper-I of an examination on public administration. It includes 13 sections that cover: 1) the historical development of public administration; 2) influential thinkers in the field such as Taylor, Marx, and Weber; 3) major theories of public administration such as bureaucratic politics and new public management; 4) the relationship between public administration and governance; 5) organizational theory approaches; 6) models of organizational decision-making; 7) the role of culture and leadership in organizations; 8) public policymaking approaches; 9) the role of administration in society; 10) techniques for administrative improvement; 11) ethics in governance; 12) administrative law; and 13) theories and concepts of local government.

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    Paper-I :

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. Theories of Public Administration:

    theories of public control of bureaucracy;


    theories of bureaucratic politics;
    Public Institutional Theory;
    theories of public management;
    theories of public choice
    post-positivist theories (a) Critical Theory of Public
    Organization, (b) Postmodernism and Poststructuralism in
    Public Administration.

    4. Public Administration and governance (i) government and


    governance; (ii) Good Governance-concept, evolution and applications;
    (iii) Democratic Governance-concept and contextualization; (iv) EGovernment, E-Governance and M-Governance.

    5. Organization Theory: Classical, Neo-Classical, Systems, Structural,


    Structural-Functional, neo-Human Relations, Pluralist, OrganizationalSocial Psychological, Strategic-contingencies, Market, InterpretiveCritical.

    6. Organizational decision-making: (a) Synoptic or RationalDeductive (Dewey); (b) Incremental and Mutual Partisan Adjustment
    (C.E. Lindblom); (c) Disjointed Incremental (D. Braybrooke and C.E.
    Lindblom); (d) Mixed Scanning (A. Etzioni).

    7. Administration and organizational culture- social political and


    economic determinants.
    8.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, SelfActualizing 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.
    9.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.
    10. Administration in society-(i) administrators; promoters, resisters,
    accommodators, detractors; (ii) accountability and control-(a)
    legislative, executive and judicial control, (ii) role of media, civil society
    organizations and NGOs, (c) judicial activism, (d) whistle blowers, (e)
    Ombudsman, (f) Citizens Charter, Right to Information, Social Audit.
    11. 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.
    12. Administrative Law - Meaning, scope and significance;
    Administrative Law in France, U. K. and Germany.
    13. 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.

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