Free Mock Test Paper for UPSC Public Administration Mains Exam (Test -1)
Free Mock Test Paper for UPSC Public Administration Mains Exam (Test -1)
SECTION - A
Q1. Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words each: 10x5=50
(a) Political environment conditions administrative system (F. W Riggs). 10
(b) What are the implications of the post-structuralist perspective on the
discrete aspects of Public Administration, coming from its epistemological
positions ?10
(c) “….The paradigms of public administration may be understood in terms of
locus and focus.” — Golembiewski . 10
(d) Explain the difference between job enlargement and job enrichment.10
(e) What factors you would consider for determining the span of Management of an
enterprise? 10
Q2.
(a) What are the modifications, if any, suggested by Hertzberg to Mallow’s
theory of motivation? Do you think Mallow’s Theory of Motivation as irrelevant
in present industrial environment? 25
(b) Deductive-nomological and inductive-probabilistic approaches dominate new
public administration (Marini). Discuss. 25
Q3.
(a) How does Public Policy formulation and implementation involve
participation by administrators, voluntary agencies and pressure groups in a
democracy? 20
(b) Describe the institutional and organizational consequences of delegation of
authority. 15
(c) Define informal groups and formal groups. How do you harmonies the two while
designing an organization? 15
Q4.
(a) How does a system Theory help to delineate functional and dysfunctional
characteristics of a public bureaucracy? 25
(b) Discuss the 'end of bureaucracy' thesis and its strengths and
limitations.25
SECTION - B
Q5. Answer the following questions in not more than 150 words each: 10x5=50
(a) Development administration calls for some revolutionary changes in the
attitudes, behaviour, and orientation and out-look of public services at all
levels of administration. 10
(b) Waldo speaks of the fears of F M Marx that Public administration has grown
so board, and so much is involved at its periphery that it stand In danger of
disappearing completely as a recognizable focus of study. 10
(c) Though somewhat unwittingly, Herbert Simon and James March have provided the
muscle and the flesh to the Weberian (bureaucratic) skeleton. 10
(d) A major problem with comparative public administration is that it has been
behavioural. Comment.10
(e) The view that systems theory, despite its promises to the contrary, followed
similar patterns that characterized the structural classical theories.
Comment.10
Q6.
(a) The prismatic sola model enables us to cope with many problems of
transitional societies (Riggs). What are these problems and how can this model
enables us to cope with them.20
(b) Discuss how Max Weber is considered to be the foremost mentor in the study
of Comparative Public Administration.15
(c) The identity and scope of Public Administration both as an academic
discipline and government in operation, have always been matters of continuing
debate and controversy. Discuss.15
Q7.
(a) The Civil Servants must not forget that he is the servant, not the master
of the community and that the official competence need not, and should not
involve the loss of human touch. Examine. 15
(b) Do you favour the coexistence of both open and closed career systems for a
balanced career development? 20
(c) Policy-making is a series of continuing dynamic processes which are plural
and composite. Explain. 15
Q8.
(a) Development administration is concerned with maximizing innovation for
development. Discuss. 20
(b) The advent of the concept of roll back of the state since the nineteen
eighties has been altering the role of public administration but certainly not
diminishing its central place in human society. Discuss 15
(c) Organization today seems to invest in information and information systems,
but their investments often do not seem to make sense. Comment 15