(Online Course) Public Administration for IAS Mains Exams

Paper - I

Administrative Theory

Introduction

• Good Governance: concept and application;

Administrative Thought

• Simon’s Decision-making Theory

Administrative Behaviour:

• Morale

Organisations:

• Public - Private Partnerships.

Accountability and control:

• Civil society;
• Social audit.

Administrative Law:

• Administrative Tribunals.

Comparative Public Administration:

• Ecology and administration;

Development Dynamics:

• Changing profile of development administration;
• ‘Antidevelopment thesis’;

Personnel Administration:

• Code of conduct;
• Administrative ethics.

Public Policy:

• State theories and public policy.

Techniques of Administrative Improvement:

• PERT,
• CPM.

Financial Administration:

• Monetary and fiscal policies;
• Financial accountability;

Paper - II

Indian Administration

Evolution of Indian Administration:

• Kautilya’s Arthashastra;

Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government:

• Constitutionalism;
• Political culture;

Public Sector Undertakings:

• Problems of autonomy, accountability and control;

Union Government and Administration:

• Cabinet Secretariat;
• Central Secretariat;

Plans and Priorities:

• ‘Indicative’ planning;
• Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;

State Government and Administration:

• State Secretariat;
• Directorates.

District Administration since Independence:

• Union-state- local relations;

Civil Services:

• Code of conduct and discipline;

• Civil service activism.

Financial Management:

• Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area;
• Accounting techniques;

Administrative Reforms since Independence:

• Reforms in financial management and human resource development;
• Problems of implementation.

Rural Development:

• Rural development programmes: foci and strategies;

Urban Local Government:

• Global local debate;
• New localism;
• Politics and administration with special reference to city management.

Law and Order Administration:

• Criminalisation of politics and administration;
• Police- public relations;
• Reforms in Police.

Significant issues in Indian Administration:

• Citizen-administration interface;
• Administration in Coalition Regimes
   

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