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SYLLABUS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS-(PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)
Subject Subject
Code No.
21 Public Administration
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[21] : PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
SYLLABUS AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS
NOTE : STRUCTURE OF PAPER II AND REVISED STRUCTURE OF PAPER III PLEASE
SEE PAGE NUMBER ONE.
PAPER—II
1. Theory of Public Administration
Public administration-Meaning, Nature and Scope, Public and Private Administration. New
Public Administration. New Public Management.
Administrative Thinkers-Kautilya, Woodrow Wilson, Gullick and Urwick, Max Weber, F. W.
Taylor, Henry Fayol, M. P. Follet, Elton Mayo, C. I. Barnard, Herbert Simon, D. H. McGregor,
Abraham Maslow, Herzberg, Chris Argyris and Fred Riggs.
Theories-Classical, Human Relations, Bureaucratic Public Choice and Principal-Agent
relationship.
Approaches to the study of Public Administration-Scientific Management, Behavioural, Systems,
Structural-Functional. Decision making, Public Policy and Marxian.
Organisation-Bases of Organisation. Formal and informal; Principles of Organisation-Hierarchy,
Span of Control, Unity of Command, Delegation, Decentralisation and Coordination; Line-
Staff Agencies.
Leadership, Motivation and Communication.
2. Comparative Public Administration
Comparative Public Administration-Nature of Scope.
Theories and Models of Comparative Public Administration-Contributions of Fred Riggs.
Montgomery and Ferrel Heady.
A Comparative Study of the Administration, Institutions and Processes in U.K., U.S.A. and
India.
Various Control Mechanisms over Administration in U.K., U.S.A and India.
Citizen and Administration-Machinery for redressal of citizen’s grievances in U.K., U.S.A.
and India.
3. Development Administration
Development Administration-Meaning, Nature and Scope Concept of Development
Administration; Development Administration and Traditional Administration; Characteristics of
Administration in Developed and Developing Countries.
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Public and Private Sectors and their Administration.
Planning-Projects and Plan Formulation, Plan Implementation and Evaluation.
Bureaucracy and Development Administration-Role of Bureaucracy in Plan Formulation and its
Implementation.
Development Administration-Interactions among Bureaucrats, Politicians, Technocrats, Social
Scientists, Educationists and Journalists. People’s Participation in Development.
International Aid and Technical Assistance programmes-IMF, IBRD, WTO.
4. Indian Administration
Administrative Legacies at the time of Independence-Civil Services; District and Revenue
Administration.
Organisation of Government at Centre level-Organisation of Secretariat. Ministries and
Departments, Cabinet Secretariat, P.M.O.
Organisation of Government at State level-Secretariat, Role of Chief Secretary. Organisation
of Ministries, Departments and Directorates.
Personnel Administration-Classification of Services. Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies-
U.P.S.C. and State Public Service Commissions, Training, Promotion, Discipline, Morale,
Staff Associations. Employer-Employee Relations.
Financial Administration-Budget, Enactment of the Budget, Finance Ministry and its Role,
Audit and Accounts, Comptroller and Auditor-General.
Plans-Five Year Plans, Formulation of Plans, Planning Commission, National Development
Council, Plan implementation.
Centre-State Relations-Legislative. Adminstrative and Financial, Finance Commission.
Control over Administration Legislative, Executive and Judicial control, Transparency,
Accountability and Administrative Responsiveness.
District Administration-Organisation of District Administration. Role of District Collector in
Development, Local Government-Rural and Urban.
Panchayati Raj Institutions and their Role in Development.
Citizen and Administration-Lokpal and Lokayukta.
Delegated Legislation and Administrative Adjudication.
Administrative Reforms in India since Independence.
5. Research Methodology
Types of Research.
Identification of Problem and Preparation of Research Design.
Research Methods in Social Sciences.
Hypothesis.
Sampling-Various Sampling Procedures.
Tools of Data Collection-Questionnaire, Interview, Content Analysis.
Processing of Data.
Measures of Central Tendency-Mean, Mode and Median.
Report Writing.
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6. Social and Economic Administration
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Social Welfare and Social Justice.
Central Social Welfare Board and State Social Welfare Boards.
Major Social Sectors-Health and Education.
Industrial Policy Resolutions and Growth of Public Sector in India.
Public Sector-Features, Problems of Management, Accountability and Autonomy.
New Economic Policy Liberalisation-Privatisation and Globalisation.
7. Local Governments-Rural and Urban
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Local Governments.
Major Features and Structures of Local Government in U.K., U.S.A., France and India.
73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments in India.
Functions and Role of Local Governments in India.
State-Local Relations in India.
PAPER—III (A)
(CORE GROUP)
Unit—I
Public Administration-Meaning, Nature and Scope, Public and Private Administration, New Public
Administration. New Public Management.
Unit—II
Organisation-Bases of Organisation-Formal and Informal. Principles of Organisation. Hierarchy,
Span of Control. Unity of Command. Delegation. Decentralisation. Co-ordination and Line &
Staff Agencies.
Unit—III
Administrative Thinkers-Kautilya, Woodrow Wilson, Luther Gullick and Lyndall Urwick, Max
Weber. F. W. Taylor. Henry Fayol, M. P. Follet, Elton Mayo, Chester Barnard, Herbert Simon,
D. H. McGregor, Abraham Maslow. Frederick Herzberg and Chris Argyris.
Unit—IV
Theories and Models of Comparative Public Administration-Contributions of Fred Riggs,
Montgomery and Ferrel Heady.
A Comparative Study of the Administration, Institutions and Processes in U.K., U.S.A and
India.
Unit—V
Development Administration-Meaning, Nature and Scope. Concept of Development
Administration, Development Administration and Traditional Administration, Characteristics of
Administration in Developed and Developing Countries.
Bureaucracy and Development Administration.
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Unit—VI
Indian Administration-Organisation of the Union Government-Central Secretariat, Ministries and
Departments, Cabinet Secretariat, P.M.O.
Organisation of the State Government-Secretariat. Role of Chief Secretary, Organisation of
Departments and Directorates.
Unit—VII
Personnel Administration-Classification of Services Recruitment, Recruitment Agencies-U.P.S.C.
and State Public Service Commissions, Training, Promotion, Discipline, Morale, Staff
Associations, Employer-Employee Relations.
Financial Administration-Budget-Meaning, Preparation and Enactment, Finance Ministry and its Role,
Audit and Accounts, Comptroller and Auditor General.
Unit—VIII
Research Methodology-Research Methods in Social Sciences.
Types of Research, Sampling, Tools of Data Collection.
Unit—IX
Structure of District Administration, Role of District Collector, Local Government-Rural and
Urban : Structure, Functions and Role, Finances; State-Local Relations.
Unit—X
Social and Economic Administration-The Concept of Social Welfare. Social Justices and
Social Change.
The Concepts of Liberalisation. Privatisation and Globalisation-The new Economic Policy.
Role of Voluntary and Non-governmental Agencies in Socio-economic Development.
PAPER—III(B)
(ELECTIVE/OPTIONAL)
Elective—I
Public Policy-Meaning, Types and Significance.
Approaches to Public Policy.
Institutional Arrangements for Policy-making.
Polilcy-making Process, Policy Implementation. Policy Education, Policy Monitoring and
Evaluation.
Policy Analysis.
Elective—II
Concepts of Social Welfare. Social Justice and Social Change.
Organisational Structure for Social Justice Administration-Central Social Welfare Board, State
Social Welfare Boards, Role of N.G.O.s and Voluntary Organisations, State Departments of
Social Welfare and the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Reservation
Policy.
Major Social Sectors-Health and Education.
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Elective—III
Economic Policy in India since Independence.
Concept of Mixed Economy.
Industrial Policy Resolutions and Growth of Public Enterprises in India.
Public Enterprises-Features, Problems of Management, Accountability and Autonomy.
Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation. Disinvestment Policy-The New economic Policy.
Elective—IV
Local Self-Government-Meaning, Nature and Scope.
73rd and 74th Consittutional Amendments in India.
Organisation and Functions.
Finances.
State and Local Government Relations.
Challenges before the Local Self-Government.
Elective—V
Concept of Rural Development, Approaches to Rural Development, Community Development,
Area Development, Integrated Rural Development, Centralization and Decentralization, Role
of Cooperatives.
Process of Urbanization, Urban Development Infrastructure, Housing, Water Supply, Sewerage,
Environment, Transport.
Master Plan, Nation Capital Region, Development Authorities, Slums.
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
PAPER—II
1. Which of the following statements about the meaning of Public administration is correct ?
(A) It is an individual effort directed towards the realization of a consciously laid down
objective.
(B) According to Pfeifner and Presthus, administration is the organisation and direction of
human and material resources to obtain the results which may not be clearly defined.
(C) According to John A. Vieg, administration is determined, action taken in pursuit of
conscious purpose.
(D) Public administration is not concerned with subject of intellectual study and inquiry.
2. Which of the following are the common features of comparative administration and comparative
politics as stated by Ferrel Heady and Sybil L. Stokes ?
(1) Comparative youth of their participants.
(2) Effort to arrive at concepts and theories that are timely universal.
(3) Effort to be inter-disciplinary in interests and techniques.
(4) General commitment to the outlook identified with behaviouralism.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
(A) 1, 2, and 3
(B) 2, 3 and 4
(C) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(D) 1, 2 and 4
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