Public Administration
Unit-1
Evolution of Public Administration as an independent discipline; New Public Administration; and New Public Management Perspective. Approaches to the study of Public Administration – Behavioural, System and Structural – Functional Approach.
Unit-2
Administrative Thought: Kautilya, Woodrow Wilson, F.W.Taylor, Elton Mayo, Classical Theory –Fayol, Gullick and Urwick, Weber’s Bureaucratic Model and Post Weberian Thinkers.
Unit-3
Indian administration: evolutions of Indian administration, constitutional framework, impact of privatization, control over administration, administrative reforms.
Unit-4
Financial Administration in India–concept Nature, Scope and Significance, Structure and Functions of Financial Ministry, Budget as a Political Instrument, Control over Financial Administration, Control over Public Expenditure–Estimates Committee And PAC.
Unit-5
Social welfare Administration: Concept, Scope, Evolution, Welfare Administration of Vulnerable and Marginalized Sections, Women And Child Welfare, Polices and Programmes of Welfare Administration, Role of NGO’s.
Unit-6
Comparative Public Administration: Meaning, Scope, Significance And Evolution, Approaches to the Study of Comparative Public Administration, Administrative Systems in Comparative Perspective–China, UK and India.
Unit-7
Development Administration: Concept, Nature And Significance, Ecology, Development Debate, Area Development, Bureaucracy And Development, Sustainable Development, Recent Trends In Development Administration –Anti Development Thesis, State Vs Market Debate, Women And Development [SHGs]
Unit-8
Public Personnel Administration: Meaning, Nature, Scope And Significance, Evolution Classification of Civil Services, Recruitment, Promotion, Pay, Service, Retirement Benefits, Discipline And Punishment, Administrative Ethics.
Unit-9
Local Self Governments in India: Concept, Nature, Significance and Evolution, Committees And Commissions on Rural And Urban Governance And Their Recommendations, 73rdAnd 74thAmendment Acts, Problems of Rural And Urban Government In India.
Unit-10
Research Methods In Public Administration: Social Science Research-Meaning and Significance; Distinction between Methodology and Method; Facts and Values in Research; Role of Research in Theory-Building; Scientific Method; Objectivity in Social Research; Nature And Forms of Research in Public Administration, Steps in Research, Techniques And Analysis, Statistics, Computer Applications.
