Paper 1 :

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.
2 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.
3 Comparative study of Administrative systems: U.K., France, U.S.A,
Brazil and China - developments since 1980s.
4 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.
5 Non-Western tradition in Public Administration: Sun-tzu, M. K.
Gandhi, Mao, Nyerere.
6 Theories of Public Administration: (i) theories of public control of
bureaucracy; (ii) theories of bureaucratic politics; (iii) Public
Institutional Theory; (iv) theories of public management; (v) theories of
public choice; (vi) post-positivist theories (a) Critical Theory of Public
Organization, (b) Postmodernism and Post structuralism in Public
Administration.
7 Public Administration and governance (i) government and
governance; (ii) Good Governance-concept, evolution and
applications; (iii) Democratic Governance-concept and

contextualization; (iv) E-Government, E-Governance and MGovernance.

8 (i) Organization Theory: Classical, Neo-Classical, Systems, Structural,
Structural-Functional, neo-Human Relations, Pluralist, OrganizationalSocial Psychological, Strategic-contingencies, Market, InterpretiveCritical.
9 (ii) 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).
10 Administration and organizational culture- social political and
economic determinants.
11 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.
12 Leadership as: Influential Increment, manager of environmental
contingencies, event management, situated action, management of
meaning, negotiation, upward influence.
13 Approaches to organizational communication (processes of
socialization, conflict management, organizational change and
leadership, organizational diversity, technology).
14 Organizational rationality: theoretical evolution.
15 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).
16 New developments in policy analysis (Paul A. Sabatier and
J.W.Kingdon).
17 Rethinking the development dynamics: `Anti-Development Thesis;
democracy, bureaucracy and development; development and NonState Actors; Sovereign State, Supermarket State and development;
human development; gendered development.
18 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.
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.
19 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.
20 Administrative Law - Meaning, scope and significance;
Administrative Law in France, U. K. and Germany.
21 Concept and theories of Local Government - Alexis de Tocqueville,
John Stuart Mill, M.K.Gandhi, Cynthia Cockburn, Manuel Castells.
22 Public Administration: emerging crisis and new directions.

PAPER 2 :
Indian Administration
Evolution of Indian Administration:
Kautilyas Arthashastra; Artha as political economy; law seven
elements of State; Civil Service and Personnel Administration;
Corruption: forms and redressal.
Medieval Administration:
Administrative thought: (a) Barni: Tariak-i-ferozeshahi, Fatwa-iJahandari; (b) Abul Fazal: Ain-i-Akbari.
Administrative Practices: (a) Sher Shah: Land Revenue Administration;
(b) Akbar: Secular Administration; Land Revenue Administration.
Salient features of Medieval administration.
British Influence:
Legacy of British Rule in politics and administration: Indianization of
public services, revenue administration, district administration, Local
Self Government.
Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of Government:
Salient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture;
Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.
Gandhian and Nehruvian approaches to development: critical
assessment.

Planning in India:
Origins; Models; Institutions and Mechanisms; Planning Commission;
National Development Council; Process of plan formulation at the
Union, the state and local levels.
Public Sector Undertakings:
Growth and decline; Impact of liberalization and privatization;
divestment; status of Nav Ratna undertakings; issues in autonomy,
accountability and control.
Union Government and Administration:
Executive, Parliament, Judiciary structure, functions, work processes;
Cabinet Secretariat; Prime Ministers Office; Central Secretariat;
Ministries and Departments; Boards; Commissions; Attached Offices;
Field Organizations; Regulatory Authorities (SEBI, IRDA, TRAI etc.)
State Government and Administration:
Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State
Secretariat; Directorates; State Finance Commissions, State control
over local governments.
Emerging Trends in Union-State Relations:
Recent trends in inter and intra governmental relations in the context
of federalism;
Legislative, administrative and financial relations; Finance Commission;
Chief Ministerialization of State Governments in the contexts of
liberalization and coalition governments.
District Administration since Independence:
Changing role of the Collector; state-local relations; imperatives of

development management and law and order administration; district

administration and democratic decentralization.
Civil Services:
Constitutional position; structure, recruitment, training and capacitybuilding; Good Governance initiatives; recommendations of the 5th
and 6th Pay Commissions on Civil Services; code of conduct and
discipline; staff associations; political rights; civil service neutrality; civil
service activism; administrative corruption.
Grievance Redressal Mechanism:
Lok Pal, Lok Ayukta, CVC, State Vigilance Commissions, Minorities
Commission, Womens Commission, SC/ST Commission.
Financial Management:
Budget as a political instrument; budget and administered prices; role
of finance ministry and RBI in monetary and fiscal area; budgetary
process; Parliamentary control of public expenditure; accounting
techniques; audit; role of Controller General of Accounts and
Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
Administrative Reforms since Independence:
Major concerns; important committees and commissions; a critical
review of ARC I and ARC II; problems of implementation; Performance
Mointoring and Evaluation Systems (PMES) and Results Framework
Document(RFD); social and political obstacles to reform.
Rural Development:
Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi, Vinoba Bhave and Jayaprakash Narain;
institutions and agencies since independence; rural development
programmes; foci and strategies; decentralization and Panchayati Raj;
73rd Constitutional Amendment and PESA Act.

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; specialized agencies in urban
development.
Social Welfare Administration:
Social policies and legislations since Independence; institutions and
agencies; vertical national development programmes in the areas of
poverty alleviation; employment generation, rural and urban housing,
health, education and womens empowerment. Role of NGOs SHGs.
Tribal development administration.
Human Rights Administration:
National Human Rights Commission; State Human Rights
Commissions; role of civil liberty groups.
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; criminalization of politics and administration; police-public
relations; reforms in Police.
Crisis Administration:
Disaster management nature and types of disasters role of
governments, NGOs Mass Media; institutional framework for disaster

management at the central, state and local levels.

Water management in the context of emerging problems of
Waterlordism;
Environment and sustainable development.
Contemporary issues in Indian Administration:
Problems of administration in coalition regimes; SEZ; land acquisition
for development; women in administration glass ceiling and sexual
violence; transparency and RTI; liberal economic reforms; NGOs, CSOs
and development; corporate social responsibility.