KARNATAKA STATE ELIGIBILITY TEST (K-SET)
FOR ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
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.
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: 73rd & 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts: State Election Commission; State Finance Commission; District Planning Committee; Rural Governance – Gram Sabha, 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.
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.
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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