Public Administration Books Pdf
- Index of B.A. Public Administration
- Index of M.A. Public Administration
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- “Public Administration is best for working professionals, it is very easy, can be taken by graduate from any stream, can be managed in a few months, has lot of synergy with general studies blah blah blah”….this is a common sales pitch is used by coaching sirs to get new customers.
- Now that UPSC reformed the General studies syllabus for mains, they’re making even higher claims about Public Administration vs GS synergy, with specific emphasis on the newly introduced ethics paper, as if all the 1000 vacancies are reserved for Public Administration candidates only.
- Anyways, they have to paint rosy good picture, because some of them have families to feed and some of them just want to mint truckload of cash beyond what is necessary to maintain an upper-middleclass life style. Same goes geography, sociology, political science, anthropology etc.
- Yes, the length of syllabus, synergy with GS, availability of books and guidance, graduation background….all those factors should be considered before picking up a subject but don’t pick up a subject only based on somebody’s sales pitch.
- Public Administration used to be the perfect wife so UPSC decided to play Lalita Pawar in CSE 2012- in terms of unpredictable questions, merciless evaluation and scaling. Many sincere candidates ended up with ridiculously low two-digit scores.
- But whether you should keep Public Administration or leave her, that decision should not be made on the statistical inference from the two-digit scores in CSE-2012 alone, because there is no guarantee that UPSC won’t play Lalita Pawar again when you get a new bride (sociology, political science etc.) in 2013.
- Besides, despite what happened in CSE-2012, there are toppers in the final list, with Public Administration optional and same will happen in CSE-2013 as well.
- My point being: One should be careful about optionals just like in marriage and divorce. Decisions should not be made in haste during the heat of anger or passion or at the insistence of a third party.
- X subject is good because 50 people were selected from there, and Y subject is bad because only 20 people were selected: please don’t use that criteria for subject selection. All you need and all you can occupy is just one seat in the final merit list. UPSC is not about statistics of masses, it’s about an individual’s determination, perseverance, hard work and of course, good luck.
- UPSC’s treatment to Public Administration could be seen as an attempt to reduce the monopoly held by Public Administration, geography etc. in the final merit list and to promote “inclusive growth and equal opportunity” to candidates from unpopular technical subjects. (btw, @UPSC Chairman: where were you sleeping all these years when technical subjects were given step motherly treatment and coaching classes flourished like an algal bloom? How about retrospective justice, compensation or at least an apology to those retired players from odd-technical subjects who suffered at the hands of UPSC’s scaling in the previous years!)
- Anyways, to survive in the present environment of UPSC, one should expand his reading; maintain, update and revise his notes on regular basis; and practice answer writing. So far as Public Administration goes, IGNOU still has its uses, so here I’ve compiled its BA, MA (direct downloads for full sets, no registration needed) + notes of three toppers + last 34 years papers of Public Administration (1979-2012).
- Majority of these PDF files provides direct copying of text. => That means you can use Mrunal’s autonotemaker to quickly make notes and mindmaps out of it, just use mouse cursor to highlight a particular line /phrase and my software will copy its text in a separate file. for more instructions click me
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Notes of Toppers (2011)
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Last 34 years’ Public Administration (Mains) UPSC Question Papers (1979 to 2012) | Click me |
Reports of 2nd ARC | http://arc.gov.in/ |
IGNOU Lectures on Public Administration (Youtube) | Click me |
UGC lectures on Public Administration (Youtube) | Click me |
Now here is the index and syllabus of BA and MA course + official syllabus of UPSC Public Administration Mains.
BPAE-102 Indian Administration
- Administrative System at the Advent of British Rule
- British Administration- 1757-1858
- Reforms in British Administration- 1858 to 1919
- Administrative System under 1935 Act
- Continuity and Change in Indian Administration- Post 1947
- Constitutional Framework
- Central Secretariat- Organisation and Functions
- Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Secretariat
- Union Public Service Commission-Selection Commission
- Planning Process
- All India and Central Services
- Constitutional Profile of State Administration
- State Secretariat- Organisation and Functions
- Patterns of Relationship Between the Secretariat and Directorates
- State Services and Public Service Commission
- Field Administration
- District Collector
- Police Administration
- Municipal Administration
- Panckayati Raj
- Socio-Cultural Factors and Administration
- Redressal of Public Grievances
- Administrative Tribunals
- Judicial Administration
- Centre- State Administrative Relationship
- Decentralisation Debate
- Relationship Between Political and Permanent Executives
- Pressure Groups
- Generalists and Specialists
- Administrative Reforms
EPA-01 Administrative Theory
- Public Administration – Meaning and Scope
- Importance of Public Administration
- Public Administration and other Social Sciences
- Evolution of Public Administration
- Comparative Public Administration
- Development Administration
- New Public Administration
- Classical Approach-Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick
- Scientific Management-F.W. Taylor
- Human Relations Approach-Elton Mayo
- System Approach-Chester Barnard
- Behavioural Approach-Herbert Simon
- Social Psychological Approach-Douglas McGregor and Abraham Maslow
- Ecological Approach-Fred. W. Riggs
- Meaning of Bureaucracy
- Max Weber
- Karl Marx
- Representative Bureaucracy
- Issues in Bureaucracy
- Formal and Informal Organisations
- Division of Work and Coordination
- Hierarchy
- Span of Control
- Unity of Command
- Centralisation and Decentralisation
- Delegation
- Supervision
- Communication
- Administrative Planning
- Authority and Responsibility
- Leadership
- Chief Executive
- Line Agencies
- Staff and Auxiliary Agencies
- Budgeting
- Accountability
- Citizen and Administration
- Organisational Effectiveness
- Administrative Theory-An Evaluation
EPA-03 Development Administration
- Development Administration – Concept and Meaning
- Scope and Significance
- Evolution
- Growth of Development Administration
- Indias Socio-economjc Profile at Independence
- Mixed Economy Model and hs Rationale and Significance
- Role of Planning
- Goals of Development
- Planning Commission and National Development Council
- State Planning Machinery
- District Planning
- Grass Roots Planning
- Role of Bureaucracy
- Colonial Heritage of Indian Bureaucracy
- Social Background of Indian Bureaucracy
- Neutral vs Committed Bureaucracy
- Bureaucrats and Politicians and their Relationship
- Enhancing Bureaucratic Capability
- Concept of Democratic Decentralisation
- Evolution and Role of Panchayati Raj
- Emerging Patterns of Panchayati Raj
- Problems and Prospects of Panchayati Raj
- Role of Voluntary Agencies
- Co-operatives and Development
- Specialised Agencies for Development
- Evolution and Expansion of Public Sector
- Forms of Public Enterprise
- Role of Development Corporations
- Administrative Problems of Public Sector
EPA-04 Personnel Administration
- Concept, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration
- Functions and Significance of Personnel Administration
- Public Services and their Role in Administrative System
- Characteristics of Public Personnel Administration in India
- Civil Service in the Context of Modern Bureaucracy
- Bases of Bureaucracy
- Development of Public Services in India
- Classification of Services (Cadres)
- Generalists and Specialists
- Personnel-UPSC-SPSC-SSC
- Central and State Training Institutes
- Administrative Tribunals
- Career Planning and Development
- Personnel Policy
- Recruitment (Reservation in Services)
- Promotion
- Training
- Performance Appraisal
- Salary Administration (Including Incentives & Other Benefits)
- Conduct and Discipline
- Administrative Ethics and Integrity in Civil Services
- Employee Unions
- Joint Consultative Machinery
- Rights Of Public Servants
- Motivation And Morale
EPA-05 Financial Administration
- Nature and Scope of Financial Administration
- Objectives and Principles of Financial Administration
- Mixed Economy
- Centre-State Financial Relations-I
- Centre-State Financial Relations-II
- Fiscal Policy, Equity and Social Justice
- Government Budgeting – Principles and Functions
- Indian Budgetary System
- Classification of Government Expenditure
- Public Expenditure- Theories and Growth
- Performance Budgeting
- Zero Base Budgeting
- Sources of Revenue – Tax and Non-Tax
- Deficit Financing
- Public Debt Management and Role of Reserve Bank of India
- Financial Appraisal
- Economic and Social Appraisal
- Legislative Control
- System of Financial Committees
- Executive Control
- Accounting System in India
- Auditing System in India
- Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
- Financial Administration of Public Enterprises
- Financial Autonomy and Accountability of Public Enterprises
- Financial Administration of Urban Governments
- Financial Administration of Rural Governments
EPA-06 Public Policy
- Public Policy – Meaning And Nature
- Policy Cycle – Constraints in Policy Making
- Contextual Setting of Public Policy Making
- Importance of Public Policy Study – Modern Context
- Emerging Discipline of Policy Sciences
- Inter-Govermental Relations
- Role of Political Executive
- Role of Bureaucracy
- Role of Legislature
- Role of judiciary
- Interaction Amongst Various Organs
- Case Study of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976-I
- Case Study of The Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1976-II
- Interest Groups and Policy-Making
- Political Parties and Policy- Making
- Mass Media
- Socail Movements
- International Agencies
- Role of Governmental Agencies in Policy Implementation-I
- Role of Government Agencies in Policy Implementation-II
- Role of Non-governmental Agencies in Policy Implementation
- Policy Implementation Problems
- Land Reforms
- Anti-poverty Programmes
- Industrial Policy
- Panchayati Raj (Rural Development)
- Policy Impact and Evaluation
- Policy Making Approaches and Models of Policy Analysis
- Policy Analysis- An Overview
MPA-011 State, Society and Public Administration
- Nature of State
- Relationship among State, Society and Public Administration
- Changing Role of the State- Issues and Challenges
- Liberal and Marxist Perspective of the State
- Neo-liberal Perspective
- Gandhian Perspective
- Interface between Citizens and Administration
- Democratic Peoples Struggle- Case Studies
- Changing Norms of Social Equity, Participation, Flexibility and Autonomy
- Social Participation- Issues of Gender, Weaker Sections and Environment
- Changing Nature of Indian State
- Role of Bureaucracy in Policy Formulation, Implementation and Analysis
- Contemporary Context of Indian Bureaucracy
- Impact of Globalisation on Administration
- Challenges to Traditional Bureaucratic Paradigm
- Emerging Concepts- New Public Management, Reinventing Government and Business Process Reengineering
- Concept of Good Governance
- Governmental Institutions- Towards Reforms
- Growing Role of Civil Society Organisations
- Redefinition of Conflict Resolution
- Ethical Concerns in Public Administration
MPA-012 Administrative Theory
- Public Administration – Meaning, Nature and Scope and Importance
- Nature and Typologies of Organisation
- Development and Growth of Administrative Theories
- Scientific Management Approach
- Administrative Management Approach
- Max Webers Theory of Bureaucracy
- Critique of Bureaucracy
- Human Relations Approach
- Views of Herbert A. Simon on Decisoin-Making in an Organisation
- Organisational Structure, Processes and Functioning
- Socio-Psychological Approach- Views of Chris Argyris
- Socio-Psychological Approach- Views of Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg
- Socio-Psychological Approach- Views of Doughlas Mcgregor and Victor Vroom
- Open and Cooperative Systems
- Systems Approach- Views of David Easton and Chester Barnard
- Concept of Learning Organisation
- New Organisational Culture
- New Public Administration
- Perspective of Public Choice
- Pertinence of Critical Theory
- New Public Management Perspective
- State of Administrative Theory in 21st Century
MPA-013 Public Systems Management
- Public Systems Management- Concept, Nature, Scope and Characteristics
- Distinctiveness of Public Systems Management
- Public Systems Management- Constitutional Context
- Public Systems Management- Political Context
- Public Systems Management- Socio-economic Context
- New Technologies and Public Systems Management
- Concept of Governance- An Introduction
- Governance- Role of Bureaucracy and Political Executive
- Governance- Role of the Legislature and the Judiciary
- Inter-governmental Relations in the Process of Governance
- Financial Management
- Materials-Logistics Management
- Strategic Management
- Key Management Tools
- Management Information System
- Work Measurement
- Selective Market Techniques
- Future Designing Techniques
- Accountability
- Responsiveness in Public System Management
- Transparency and Right to Information
- Networking and Inter-institutional Coordination in Governance
- Reforms and Change Management
- Empowerment
- Continuity and Change in Public Systems Management
MPA-014 Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Management- Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance
- Strategic Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Planning and Strategy
- Job Analysis and Job Design
- Recruitment, Selection, Appointment and Promotion
- Performance Appraisal
- Remuneration and Salary System
- Rewards and Incentive Management
- Employee Benefits
- Training and Development
- Redeployment and Reskilling
- Learning and Development
- Management Development
- Employee Capacity Building Strategies
- Total Quality Management
- Employee Health and Safety
- Human Resource Management and Employment Involvement
- Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations
- Discipline and Grievances
- Assessing Human Resource Management Effectiveness
- Human Resource Audit
- Managing Change at the Work Place
- Stress Management
MPA-015 Public Policy and Analysis
- Understanding Public Policy
- The Policy Cycle
- Models of Public Policy
- Importance of Public Policy- Contemporary Context
- Policy Sciences
- Role of Inter-Governmental Relations in Policy-Making
- Role of Planning Commission and National Development Council in Policy Formulation
- Role of Cabinet Secretariat and Prime Ministers Office in Policy-Making
- Role of Civil Society Organisations in Policy-Making
- Role of International Agencies in Policy-Making
- Constraints in Public Policy Formulation
- Public Policy- Implementation System and Models
- Role of Various Agencies in Policy Implementation
- Policy Implementation Problems
- Monitoring of Public Policy-I
- Monitoring of Public Policy-II
- Understanding Policy Evaluation
- Ascertaining Policy Impact
- Policy Analysis
- Policy Analysis- Methods and Techniques-I
- Policy Analysis- Methods and Techniques-II
- Policy Analysis- Optimisation Studies
- Disinvestment Policy- A Case Study of India
- Telecom Policy- A Case Study of India
MPA-016 Decentralisation and Local Governance
- Concept, Evolution and Significance of Democratic Decentralisation
- Contextual Dimensions of Democratic Decentralisation-1- Political, Constitutional and Administrative
- Contextual Dimensions of Democratic Decentralisation-2- Social, Economic and Geographical
- Understanding Decentralisation in Contemporary Settings
- Components of Decentralised Development – I- Empowerment
- Components of Decentralised Development – II- Socioeconomic and Politico-administrative
- Components of Decentralised Development – III Equal Distribution of Benefits of Development
- Partnership Among Different Levels of Government – I- Union and State Governments
- Partnership Among Different Levels of Government – II- Local Authorities and Special Purpose Agencies
- Partnership Between Local Government and Non-State Agencies-Actors
- Impact of Decentralised Development
- Evolution of Local Governance (Before 73rd & 74th) Amendment
- Features Of 73rd and 74th constitutional Amendment
- Organisational Structure of Rural Local Bodies
- Organisational Structure of Urban Local Bodies
- Intra-Local Government Relationship-I– Rural
- Intra-Local Government Relationship- II- Urban
- Development Planning- Nature and Scope
- Micro Level Plans- Formulation and Implementation
- Structural Reforms- Resources, Finances, Powers and Functions
- Capacity Building of Grassroots Functionaries
- Sustainable Development and Challenges to Decentralised Governance
- Decentralisation- The Road Ahead
MPA-017 Electronic Governance
- E-Governance- Concept and Significance
- Information and Communication Technology- Concept and Components
- ICTs- Roles and Applications
- Role of ICT in Administration
- Administrative Organisation Culture- Towards ICT Based Reforms
- Role of ICT in Rural Development
- Panchayati Raj Institutions- Improving Self- Governance Through ICT
- E-Learning- Role of ICT in Education and Training
- E-Commerce
- Delivery of Citizen Services- Role of ICT
- ICT in Indian Railways
- Saukaryam- ICT Project in Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, Andhra Pradesh
- E-Seva- ICT Project in Self-Help in Andhra Pradesh
- Information Policy- Right to Information Act 2005
- ICT Implementation in Governance- Issues and Challenges
MPA-018 Disaster Management
- Meaning and Classification of Disasters
- Disaster Management Cycle
- Disaster Management – Recent Trends
- Disaster Preparedness- Indian Context
- Disaster Prevention
- Vulnerability Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Resource Analysis and Mobilisation
- Disaster Mitigation
- Community Based Disaster Management
- Search, Rescue and Evacuation
- Temporary Shelter, Warehousing And Stockpiling
- Distribution of Relief Material
- Emergency Operation Centers
- Damage Assessment
- Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
- Disasters and Development
- First Responders
- Disaster Manager
- Disaster Management Strategies
MPS-003 India Democracy and Development
(It is a common course offered under IGNOU’s MA Socio and MA PubAD programs, and provides lot of useful fodder material for General studies and both optionals.)
- National Movement
- Development Models
- Constitution And Social Transformation
- Diversity
- Inequality
- Political Economy
- Economy-Structure And Growth
- Legislature
- Bureaucracy, Police, Army
- Judiciary
- Federalism
- Self Government
- Political Parties
- Workers And Peasents
- Media
- Interest Groups
- Caste, Regligion, Language
- Civil Society
- Human Development
- Gender
- Regional Imbalances
- Migration
- Environment
- Economic Reforms
- Religious Politics
- Ethnicity
- Democracy And Development-Assessment
- Introduction:
- Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration
- Wilson’s vision of Public Administration
- Evolution of the discipline and its present status
- New Public Administration
- Public Choice approach
- Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation
- Good Governance: concept and application
- New Public Management.
- Administrative Thought:
- Scientific Management and Scientific Management movement
- Classical Theory
- Weber’s bureaucratic model – its critique and post-Weberian Developments
- Dynamic Administration (Mary Parker Follett)
- Human Relations School (Elton Mayo and others)
- Functions of the Executive (C.I. Barnard)
- Simon’s decision-making theory
- Participative Management (R. Likert, C. Argyris, D. McGregor).
- Administrative Behaviour:
- Process and techniques of decision-making
- Communication
- Morale
- Motivation Theories – content, process and contemporary
- Theories of Leadership: Traditional and Modern.
- Organisations:
- Theories – systems, contingency
- Structure and forms: Ministries and Departments, Corporations, Companies,
- Boards and Commissions
- Ad hoc and advisory bodies
- Headquarters and Field relationships
- Regulatory
- Authorities
- Public – Private Partnerships.
- Accountability and control:
- Concepts of accountability and control
- Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration
- Citizen and Administration
- Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations
- Civil society
- Citizen’s Charters
- Right to Information
- Social audit.
- Administrative Law:
- Meaning, scope and significance
- Dicey on Administrative law
- Delegated legislation
- Administrative Tribunals.
- Comparative Public Administration: (CPA)
- Historical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems
- Administration and politics in different countries
- Current status of Comparative Public Administration
- Ecology and administration
- Riggsian models and their critique.
- Development Dynamics: (DA)
- Concept of development
- Changing profile of development administration
- ‘Antidevelopment thesis’
- Bureaucracy and development
- Strong state versus the market debate
- Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries
- Women and development – the self-help group movement.
- Personnel Administration:
- Importance of human resource development
- Recruitment, training, career advancement, position
- classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pay and service conditions
- employer-employee relations, grievance redressal mechanism
- Code of conduct
- Administrative ethics.
- Public Policy:
- Models of policy-making and their critique
- Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation,
- monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations
- State theories and public policy formulation.
- Techniques of Administrative Improvement:
- Organisation and methods, Work study and work management
- e-governance and information technology
- Management aid tools like network analysis, MIS, PERT, CPM.
- Financial Administration:
- Monetary and fiscal policies
- Public borrowings and public debt Budgets – types and forms
- Budgetary process
- Financial accountability
- Accounts and audit.
- Evolution of Indian Administration:
- Kautilya’s Arthashastra
- Mughal administration
- 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.
- Public Sector Undertakings:
- Public sector in modern India
- Forms of Public Sector Undertakings
- Problems of autonomy, accountability and control
- Impact of liberalization and privatization.
- Union Government and Administration:
- structure, functions, work processes (and Recent trends) of
- Executive
- Parliament
- Judiciary
- Intragovernmental relations
- Cabinet Secretariat
- Prime Minister’s Office (PMO)
- Central Secretariat
- Ministries and Departments
- Boards Commissions
- Attached offices
- Field organizations.
- structure, functions, work processes (and Recent trends) of
- Plans and Priorities:
- Machinery of planning
- Role, composition and functions of the
- Planning Commission
- National Development Council
- ‘Indicative’ planning
- Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels
- Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.
- State Government and Administration:
- Union-State relations
- administrative
- legislative
- financial relations
- Role of the Finance Commission
- Governor
- Chief Minister
- Council of Ministers
- Chief Secretary
- State Secretariat
- Directorates.
- Union-State relations
- District Administration since Independence:
- Changing role of the Collector
- Unionstate-local relations
- Imperatives of development management
- law and order administration
- District administration
- democratic decentralization.
- Civil Services:
- Constitutional position
- Structure, recruitment, training and capacity-building
- Good governance initiatives
- Code of conduct and discipline
- Staff associations
- Political rights
- Grievance redressal mechanism
- Civil service neutrality
- Civil service activism.
- Financial Management:
- Budget as a political instrument
- Parliamentary control of public expenditure
- Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area
- Accounting techniques
- Audit
- Role of Controller General of Accounts
- Role of Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
- Administrative Reforms since Independence:
- Major concerns
- Important Committees and Commissions
- Reforms in financial management and human resource development
- Problems of implementation.
- Rural Development:
- Institutions and agencies since independence
- Rural development programmes: foci and strategies
- Decentralization and Panchayati Raj
- 73rd Constitutional amendment.
- Urban Local Government:
- Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas
- 74th Constitutional Amendment
- Globallocal debate
- New localism
- Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management.
- 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
- Criminalisation of politics and administration (lolz)
- Police-public relations
- Reforms in Police.
- Significant issues in Indian Administration:
- Values in public service
- Regulatory Commissions
- National Human Rights Commission
- Problems of administration in coalition regimes
- Citizen-administration interface
- Corruption and administration
- Disaster management.
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