This textbook is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to understanding the fundamentals of public administration. It examines the recent developments and relevant theoretical underpinnings in an accessible manner.
Public Administration:
- Helps students grasp key dialectical interconnections between theoretical conceptualizations and prevalent socio-economic and political circumstances
- Provides understanding of issues in governance
- Analyses significant transformations in civil society and administrative set-ups across the world
- Highlights the contributions of non-Western thinkers in the development of conceptual ideas of the discipline
Accessibly written, it caters to a wide range of university syllabi in public administration and will be essential for students and researchers of political science, public policy and public administration. It will also be particularly useful for those preparing for the civil service examinations.
This textbook is a comprehensive, student-friendly guide to understanding the fundamentals of Public Administration. It examines the recent developments and relevant theoretical underpinnings in an accessible manner.
Introduction
1. Evolution of Public Administration as a Discipline
2.
Administrative Theories:Western Tradition
3. Administrative Theories: The
Non-Western Tradition 4.Contemporary Developments in the Discipline 5.Public
Policy: Theory and Practice
6. Changing Patterns of Development
Administration
7. Local Governance: Concept and Practice
8. Social Welfare
Administration
9. Citizen-Centric Administration
10. Public Administration in
India
11. Financial Administration in India
12. Planning Discourse in India
13.Administrative Reforms in India
14. Contemporary Issues in Public
Administration
15. Globalization and Public Administration. Conclusion INdex
Bidyut Chakrabarty taught for more than three decades in the department of Political Science, University of Delhi. He later served and retired as the Vice Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan in 2023 after completion of a term of five years. He completed his PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science and has several prestigious publications to his credit.
Prakash Chand Kandpal is Professor and Chairperson, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of interest are public administration, public policy, governance studies, local governance, environmental policy and politics in India.
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