KSET Syllabus PublicAdministration

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Subject: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Subject Code : 23

Syllabus
UNIT – I

Introduction to Public Administration: Public Administration – Meaning, Nature, Scope &
Significance; Evolution and Present Status of the Discipline; Politics Administration
Dichotomy; Globalization and Public Administration; Paradigm shift from Government to
Governance.
Principles of Organization: Division of work; Hierarchy; Coordination; Unity of Command;
Span of Control; Authority, Power and Responsibility; Delegation, Centralization and
Decentralization; Line, Staff and Auxiliary Agencies; Leadership and Supervision; Decision –
making and Communication.
Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration: Classification, Recruitment, Training,
Promotion, Compensation and service conditions, Discipline, Civil Service Neutrality,
Anonymity and Commitment, Professional Associations and Unionism.

UNIT – II

Administrative Thought: Approaches to the study of Public Administration: Oriental –
Kautilya, Classical – F W Taylor, Henri Fayol, Max Weber, Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick;
Human Relations – Elton Mayo, Mary Parker Follett; Behaviouralism – Chester Barnard,
Herbert Simon; Motivation – Abraham Maslow, Fredrick Herzberg, Douglas McGregor;
Organizational Humanism – Chris Argyris, Rensis Likert; Writers on Administration: Dwight
Waldo, Ferrel Heady, Robert Golembiewski and Peter Drucker; Minnobrook Perspective, New
Public Service and Post Modernism.

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Unit – III

Indian Administration: Evolution – Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; Constitutional
Framework: Parliamentary and Federal Features.
Union Government : President; Prime Minister & Council of Ministers; Cabinet Committees;
Central Secretariat; Cabinet Secretariat: and Prime Minister Office.
Election Commission and Electoral Reforms, Union State Relations.
Accountability: Legislative; Executive and Judicial.
Citizen Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Lok Pal: Lok Ayukta; Central Vigilance Commission
and Regulatory Authorities. Issue Areas: Politician and Civil Servant relations, Generalists and
Specialists debate and Combating Corruption.
Civil Services: Classification – All India Services, Central Services and State Services;
Recruitment Agencies – Union Public Service Commission, State Public Service Commissions
and other Commissions and Boards: Capacity Building of Civil Servants and Civil Service
Reforms.
Planning: Planning Commission, National Development Council, NITI Aayog, State Planning
Commissions/ Boards and Planning Departments.
Judiciary: Indian Constitution and Independence of Judiciary : Supreme court, High Courts;
Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation and Judicial Reforms. Police Administration and
Reforms. E-Governance Initiatives in Indian Administration.

Unit –IV

State & Local Administration: Constitutional Framework of State Administration – State
Legislature; Governor – Role and Functions; Chief Minister – Powers and Functions; Council of
Ministers; Role and Functions of Chief Secretary; State Secretary; Directorates and
Commissionerate; District Administration – Concept and Evolution, District Collector – Power,
Functions and Changing role; Autonomous District Councils – Structure, Powers and functions,
District Rural Development Agency; Evolution of Local governance in India.
Local Governance: 73 rd & 74 th Constitutional Amendment Acts: State Election Commission;
State Finance Commission; District Planning Committee; Rural Governance – Gram Sabha,

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Gram Panchayats, Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads, Finance in PRIs, Personnel
administration at local level; Policies and Programmes of Rural Development – MGNAREGA.
Growth of Urbanization, Urban Governance – Structure, Composition, functions of Municipal
Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Metropolitian Governance – Sources
of Finance, Personnel Administration. Reforms in Urban Governance –Solid Waste
Management, Smart and AMRUT cities

Unit –V
Comparative and Development Administration: Comparative Public Administration:
Concept, Nature, Scope and Significance of Comparative Public Administration; Public
Administration and its Environment. Approaches and Methods to the study of Comparative
Administration: Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-functional, Ecological and Systems
Approaches. Fred Riggs’s Typology of Societies and Features; Problems of Comparative
Research; Comparative Studies – Influence of Globalization; Salient Features of the
administrative systems of UK, USA, France and Japan.
Development Administration: Development and its Dimension. Development and
Modernization; Approaches to Development – Sustainable Development and Anti-Development;
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Development Administration: Concept, Nature, Scope, Objectives, Features and Significance;
Ecology of Development Administration, Contribution of Fred Riggs, Dwight Waldo and
Edward Widener; Role of Bureaucracy in Development. Globalizarion and Development
Administration; Emergence of Non-State actors in Development Administration; Public-Private
Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Development Indicators and Social
Audit.

Unit – VI
Economic and Financial Administration: Economic Policies – Mixed Economy to
Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization (LPG); New Economic Policy (NEP); Industrial
Policy since Independence; Government in Business – Public Enterprises – Concept, Growth and
Forms of Public Enterprises; Management, Problem of Accountability and Autonomy;
Disinvestment Policies.

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Financial Administration: Public Finance – Revenue and Expenditure: Nature, Scope and
Significance of Financial Administration; Budget – Meaning, Purpose and Significance ;
Budgetary Process – preparation, enactment and execution; Types of Budget – PPBS,
Performance Budget, Zero-Based Budget and Gender Budget; Fiscal Responsibility and Budget
Management Act (FRBMA) and Sunset legislation. Fiscal Federalism – Union State Financial
Relations, Finance Commission. Financial Control – Legislature and Executive; Parliamentary
committees and Comptroller and Auditor General of India. Taxation policies – Principles of
Taxation – Progressive and Proportional taxation – Reforms in Taxation policies.

Unit – VII
Social Welfare Administration: Concept of Social Welfare, Social Justice and Social change;
Concept of Enquiry and Inclusiveness in Social Justice; Concept of Affirmative action-
Reservations; Institutional arrangement for Social Welfare & Social Justice Administration;
NGOs, Civil Societies and Voluntary Agencies; Policies, Programmes Women/ Children, Aged,
Differently-abled (Divyang) and Minorities Commissions – Women, SC/ST, Minority- Role and
Functions.
Disaster Management – Nature and Types of Disaster; Institutional Arrangements for Disaster
Management; Role of State and Non-State actors.

Unit – VIII
Public Policy: Nature, Scope and Importance of Public Policy; Evolution of Public Policy and
Policy Sciences: Public Policy and Public Administration. Approaches to Public Policy –
Process Approach, Logical Positivism, Phenomenological Approach, Participatory and
Normative Approaches.
Theories and Models of Policy Making – Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Yehezkel Dror.
Institutions of Policy Making – Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. Types of Policy Analysis –
Empirical, Normative, Retrospective and Prospective, Prescriptive and Descriptive. Policy
Implementation, Outcomes and Evaluation.
Constraints on Public Policy – Socio-economic, Political, Institutional and Cultural. Role of
Media, Public Opinion, civil Society and Pressure Groups on Policy Making.

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Unit – IX
Governance and Good Governance: Ancient Discourse – Kautilya, Plato and Aristotle on
Good Governance, Elements and Forms of Good Governance; Theories and Concepts of
Governance – World Bank and UNDP; State, Market and Civil Society, Public Choice Theory,
New Public Management, Public Value Theory, Governance as Theory, Governance and Public
Governance.
Networking and Collaborative Governance, Business Process Re-engineering, ICT and
governance – e-Governance and e-Governance, e-Readiness and Digital Divide.
Accountability, Openness and Transparency; Gender and Governance.
Citizen and Governance: Civil Society – Role and Limitations, Citizen Participation, Right to
Information – RTI Act and Administrative Reforms, National Information Commission, citizen
Charter – Concept, Objectives and Significance.
Ethics and Public Accountability in Governance: Rule of Law and Administrative Law,
Delegated Legislation and Administrative Adjudication. Ethical Foundation of Governance
Constitutional Values, Family, Society and Education.

Unit – X

Research Methodology: Social Science Research: Meaning and Significance; Distinction
between Methodology and Method; Facts and Values in Research ; Role of Research in Theory-
Building; Scientific Methods; Objectivity in Social Research; Types of Research; Identification
of Research Problem; Hypotheses and Null-Hypotheses; Validation of Hypothesis; Research
Design; Methods of Data Collection – Primary and Secondary sources – (Observation;
Questionnaire and Interview, Use of Library and Internet); Sampling and Sampling Techniques;
Scales of Measurement; Analysis of Data and Use of Computers in Social Science Research
SPSS; Citation patterns and Ethics of Research; Bibliography; Report Writing.

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