PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
UGC NTA/NET EXAMINATION SYLLABUS
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Topics Public Administration
Unit 1 Public Administration Preface:
Public
Administration-Significance, Nature, Scope and Importance; Evolution and
Current Status of the Discipline; Political and Political Dichotomies;
Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm Shift from Government
Governance. Organizational rules: division of labour; hierarchical system;
coordination; unified command; scope of control; authority, power and
responsibility; authorization, centralization and decentralization; auxiliary
lines, staff and institutions; leadership and supervision; decision-making and
communication. That is, the nature and scope of personnel management:
classification, hiring, training, promotion, salary and conditions of
association, discipline, neutrality of civil servants, anonymity and
commitment, professional associations and trade unions.
Unit 2 Administrative Thought:
Public Administration Evaluation Method: Oriental-Chanakya;
Classical-FW Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick;
Interpersonal Relations: Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Fo Wright; Behaviourism-Chester
Barnard, Herbert Simon; Motivation: Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, Douglas
McGregor; Organizational Humanism-Chris Argyris , Rensis Likert; management
writers: Dwight Waldo, Ferrell Heady, Robert Golembiewski, and Peter Drucker; Minnow
brook perspective, new public services, and postmodernism.
Unit 3 of Indian government:
evolution-ancient,
Mughal and British periods; constitutional framework: parliamentary and federal
features. Government relations: President; Prime Minister and Council of
Ministers; Cabinet Committee; Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretary; and Prime
Minister's Office. Political career and electoral reform committee, national
alliance relations. Responsibilities: legislation; management personnel; and
justice. Resident complaint remediation mechanism: Le Bao; Le Ayutta; Central
Supervision and Regulatory Commission. Thematic areas: relations with
politicians and officials, dialogues with generalists and experts, and
anti-corruption. Regular services: Classification: all Indian services, central
services and national services; recruitment agencies-trade union public service
committees, state public service committees and various committees and
committees: capacity building of public officials and public function reforms.
Organizers: Planning Commission, National Development Commission, NITI Aayog,
National Planning Commission/Committee and Planning Department. Legal person in
charge: Indian Constitution and Judicial Independence: Supreme Court; High
Court; Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reform.
Administrative and police reforms. The e-government initiative of the Indian
Association.
Unit 4: State and local administration:
the constitutional
framework of state administration-state legislature; Governor-roles and
functions; Chief Minister-powers and functions; Council of Ministers; roles and
functions of the Chief Secretary; Secretary of State; Board of Directors and
Commissioners; District Administration-concept and evolution, district
collector-power, function and location change; autonomous district
council-structure, power and function, district rural development bureau;
evolution of local governance in India. Governance closure: Article 73 and
Article 74 Constitutional Amendments: State Election Commission; National
Finance Commission; District Planning Commission; Rural Governance-Gram Sabha,
Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads, PRI Finance, Neighbourhood
Employees Association; Rural Development Policies and plans-MGNAREGA. Promote
urbanization and urban governance-the structure, composition, and functions of
municipal companies, municipal committees, Nagar Panchayats and metropolitan
governance-sources of funds, employee management. Changes in urban
governance-solid waste management, smart city network and AMRUT
Unit-5 relative to development management:
comparison of public management: comparison of the
concept, nature, scope and importance of public management; public
administration and its environment. Compare methods and methods of management
inspection: system, behaviour, structure-function, ecological and system
methods. Types of companies and the characteristics of Fred Riggs; comparative
research issues; comparative research-the impact of globalization; outstanding
features of the administrative structure of the United Kingdom, the United
States, France, and Japan. Schedule management: development and its dimensions.
Improvement and modernization; development approach: sustainable development
and anti-development; sustainable development goals (SDG). Schedule management:
concept, nature, scope, goals, characteristics and significance; development of
ecological management, provided by Fred Riggs, Dwight Waldo and Edward Widener;
the role of bureaucracy in development. Globalization and Development
Authority; the emergence of non-state actors in development management;
public-private partnerships; corporate social responsibility, human development
indicators, and social auditing.
Unit 6 Currency and Financial Management:
Economic
Policy-Mixed Economy to Liberalization, Privatization, and Globalization (GLP);
New Economic Policy (NEP); Industrial Policy since Independence; Government in
Companies: the concept of listed companies, The growth and form of listed
companies; management, responsibility and autonomy issues; divestment policies.
Money-related management: public finance-income and expenditure: the nature, scope,
and importance of financial management; budget: meaning, purpose and
importance; budget process: status, basis and execution; budget type: PPBS,
performance budget, zero Base budget, gender budget; Fiscal Responsibility and
Budget Management Act (FRBMA) and Sunset Agency. Financial
Federalism-Union-State Fiscal Relations, Finance Committee. Control-legislation
and administration related to money, Indian Parliamentary Committee and Auditor
General. Rights Evaluation Procedure-Taxation Principles-Gradual and
Proportional Expenditure Evaluation-Taxation Reform is coming soon.
Unit 7 Social Welfare Management:
Concepts of Social
Welfare, Social Justice and Social Change; Concepts of Fairness and
Inclusiveness in Social Justice; Concepts of Affirmation Movement Reserve;
Institutional Game Plans of the Social Welfare and Social Justice
Administration; NGOs, Civil Society And voluntary organizations; CS/ST/OBC/women/children,
the elderly, different persons with disabilities (Divyang) and the protection
and welfare policies, plans and institutional frameworks of committees for
women, SC/ST, ethnic minorities-roles and functions. Disaster management: the
nature and type of disasters; the institutional arrangements for disaster
management; the role of state and non-state performers.
8 unit public policy:
the nature, scope and
importance of public policy; the evolution of public policy and political
science; public policy and public management. Public policy methods-process
methods, logical positivism, phenomenological methods, participatory and
normative methods. Policy assumptions and models: Harold Laswell, Charles
Lindblom, Yehezkel Dror. Decision-making associations: legislative,
administrative and judicial. Types of policy analysis: empirical, normative,
retrospective and forward-looking, prescriptive and descriptive. Implementation
of procedures, results and assessments. The needs of public policy-social
currency, politics, institutions and culture. The occupation of policymaking by
the media, public opinion, civil society and pressure groups.
Unit 9: Organization and Good Governance:
Ancient Discourses: Cortilla, Plato, and Aristotle on Good
Governance; Elements and Forms of Good Governance; Management Theory and
Concepts-World Bank and UNDP; State, Market and Civil Society, Public decision
theory, new public management, public value theory, government as theory,
government and public administration.
Framework condition design and joint management, new
business process planning, ICT and management-e-government and e-government,
e-preparation and digital division of labour.
Commitment, Openness and Transparency; Gender and
Administrative Population and Governance: Civil Society-Roles and Restrictions,
Citizen Participation, Information Right-Legal and Administrative Reform RTI,
National Information Commission, Citizen Charter-Concept, Purpose and Meaning
Morality and Public in Government Responsibilities: rule of law and
administrative law, entrusted legislation and administrative decision-making.
The moral foundation of governance: constitutional values, family, society and
education.
Unit 10 Evaluation Method: Social Science Research:
Significance and Importance; Difference between Methodology and Methodology;
Facts and Values in Research; Role of
Research in Theory Construction; Scientific Method; Objectivity of Social
Research; Research Type; Determining Research Questions; null hypotheses and
assumptions; confirmation of hypotheses; survey design; data collection
methods-primary and secondary sources-(observations; questionnaire surveys and
interviews, library and Internet use) sampling and sampling techniques;
measuring scales; social science research Data analysis and computer use
in-SPSS; quotation model and research ethics; bibliography; writing reports.
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