3026 Perspectives on Public Administration

Course Name: POL HC 3026 PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

About the Course:

Objective:

The course provides an introduction to the discipline of public administration. This paper encompasses public administration in its historical context with an emphasis on the various classical and contemporary administrative theories. The course also explores some of the recent trends, including feminism and ecological conservation and how the call for greater democratization is restructuring public administration. The course will also attempt to provide the students a comprehensive understanding on contemporary administrative developments.

Course Outcome:

• To enable students to learn the basic concepts related to public administration and its importance,

• To make students learn the major theories of public administration,

• To enable students to have an understanding of public policy and its formulation,

• To familiarize students with the major approaches and recent debates related to field of public administration.

Course Plan: POL HC 3026 PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Session Plan:

I. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS A DISCIPLINE [ 15 lectures ]

• Meaning, Dimensions and Significance of the Discipline

• Public and Private Administration

• Evolution of Public Administration

II. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES [ 25 lectures ]

CLASSICAL THEORIES

• Scientific management (F.W.Taylor)

• Administrative Management (Gullick, Urwick and Fayol)

• Ideal-type bureaucracy (Max Weber)

NEO-CLASSICAL THEORIES

• Human relations theory (Elton Mayo)

• Rational decision-making (Herbert Simon)

CONTEMPORARY THEORIES

• Ecological approach (Fred Riggs)

• Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Peter Drucker)

III. PUBLIC POLICY [ 10 lectures ]

• Concept, relevance and approaches 29

• Formulation, implementation and evaluation

IV. MAJOR APPROACHES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION [ 20 lectures ]

• New Public Administration

• New Public Management

• New Public Service Approach

• Good Governance

• Feminist Perspectives

READINGS

I. Public Administration as a Discipline

a. Meaning, Dimensions and Significance of the Discipline.

• Nicholas Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs, Prentice Hall, 1999

• D. Rosenbloom, R. Kravchuk. and R. Clerkin, (2009) Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics and Law in Public Sector, 7th edition, New Delhi: McGraw Hill, pp. 1- 40

• W. Wilson, (2004) ‘The Study of Administration’, in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds), Administrative Change and Innovation: a Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 85-101

b. Public and Private Administration.

• M. Bhattacharya, (2008) New Horizons of Public Administration, 5th Revised Edition. New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, pp. 37-44.

• G. Alhson, (1997) ‘Public and Private Management’, in Shafritz, J. and Hyde, A. (eds.) Classicsof Public Administration, 4th Edition. Forth Worth: Hartcourt Brace, TX, pp. 510- 529

c. Evolution of Public Administration

• N. Henry, Public Administration and Public Affairs, 12th edition. New Jersey: Pearson,2013

• M.Bhattacharya, Restructuring Public Administration: A New Look, New Delhi: JawaharPublishers, 2012

• P.Dunleavy and C.Hood, “From Old Public Administration to New Public Management”, Public Money and Management, Vol. XIV No-3, 1994

• M. Bhattacharya, New Horizons of Public Administration, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, Basu, Rumki, Public Administration: Concepts and Theories Sterling Publishers, New Delhi 2014

II. Theoretical Perspectives

Scientific Management

• D. Gvishiani, Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972

• F. Taylor, ‘Scientific Management’, in J. Shafritz, and A. Hyde, (eds.) Classics of Public Administration, 5th Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004

• P. Mouzelis, ‘The Ideal Type of Bureaucracy’ in B. Chakrabarty, And M. Bhattacharya, (eds), Public Administration: A Reader, New Delhi: Oxford University Press,2003

Administrative Management

• D. Ravindra Prasad, Y. Pardhasaradhi, V. S. Prasad and P. Satyrnarayana, [eds.], Administrative Thinkers, Sterling Publishers, 2010

• E. J. Ferreira, A. W. Erasmus and D. Groenewald , Administrative Management, Juta Academics, 2010

Ideal Type-Bureaucracy

• M. Weber,‘Bureaucracy’, in C. Mills, and H. Gerth, From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1946

• Warren. G.Bennis, Beyond Bureaucracy, Mc Graw Hill, 1973

Human Relations Theory

• D. Gvishiani, Organisation and Management, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1972 B. Miner, ‘Elton Mayo and Hawthrone’, in Organisational Behaviour 3: Historical Origins and the Future. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006

Rational-Decision Making

• S. Maheshwari, Administrative Thinkers, New Delhi: Macmillan, 2009

• Fredrickson and Smith, ‘Decision Theory’, in The Public Administration Theory Primer. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2003

Ecological approach

• R. Arora, ‘Riggs’ Administrative Ecology’ in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya (eds), Public Administration: A reader, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003

• A. Singh, Public Administration: Roots and Wings. New Delhi: Galgotia Publishing Company, 2002

• F. Riggs, Administration in Developing Countries: The Theory of Prismatic Society. Boston: Houghton Miffin,1964

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

• Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Harper Collins,1999

• Peter F. Drucker, The Practice of Management, Harper Collins, 2006

III. Public Policy

Concept, Relevance and Approaches

• T. Dye, (1984) Understanding Public Policy, 5th Edition. U.S.A: Prentice-Hall, pp. 1-44

• The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy, OUP,2006

• Xun Wu, M.Ramesh, Michael Howlett and Scott Fritzen, The Public Policy Primer: Managing The Policy Process, Rutledge, 2010

• Mary Jo Hatch and Ann .L. Cunliffe Organisation Theory: Modern, Symbolic and Postmodern Perspectives, Oxford University Press,2006

• Michael Howlett, Designing Public Policies: Principles And Instruments, Rutledge, 2011 The Oxford Handbook Of Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2006

• Chakrabarty, B. & Chand, P. (2016), Public Policy: Concepts, Theory and Practice, New Delhi: Sage Publications

Formulation, implementation and evaluation

• Prabir Kumar De, Public Policy and Systems, Pearson Education, 2012

• R.V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar, Public Policy Making In India, Pearson,2009

• Surendra Munshi and Biju Paul Abraham [Eds.] Good Governance, Democratic Societies And Globalisation, Sage Publishers, 2004

IV. Major Approaches in Public Administration

a. Development administration

• M. Bhattacharya, ‘Chapter 2 and 4’, in Social Theory, Development Administration and Development Ethics, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, 2006 32

• F. Riggs, The Ecology of Public Administration, Part 3, New Delhi: Asia Publishing House, 1961

b. New Public Administration

• M. Bhattacharya, Public Administration: Issues and Perspectives, New Delhi: Jawahar Publishers, 2012

• H. Frederickson, ‘Toward a New Public Administration’, in J. Shafritz, & A. Hyde, (eds.) Classics of Public Administration, 5th Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004

c. New Public Management

• U. Medury, Public administration in the Globalization Era, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2010

• A. Gray, and B. Jenkins, ‘From Public Administration to Public Management’ in E. Otenyo and N. Lind, (eds.) Comparative Public Administration: The Essential Readings: OxfordUniversity Press, 1997

• C. Hood, ‘A Public Management for All Seasons’, in J. Shafritz, & A. Hyde, (eds.) Classics of Public Administration, 5th Edition, Belmont: Wadsworth, 2004

d. New Public Service Approach

• R.B.Denhart& J.V.Denhart [Arizona State University] “ The New Public Service: Serving Rathet Than Steering”, in Public Administration Review, Volume 60, No-6, November December 2000

e. Good Governance

• A. Leftwich, ‘Governance in the State and the Politics of Development’, in Development and Change. Vol. 25,1994

• M. Bhattacharya, ‘Contextualizing Governance and Development’ in B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya, (eds.) The Governance Discourse. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,1998

• B. Chakrabarty, Reinventing Public Administration: The India Experience. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2007

• U. Medury, Public administration in the Globalisation Era, New Delhi: Orient Black Swan, 2010

• Singh, Shivani. (2016), Governance: Issues and Challenges, New Delhi, Sage Publication

f. Feminist Perspective

• Camila Stivers, Gender Images In Public Administration, California : Sage Publishers,2002

• Radha Kumar, The History of Doing, New Delhi: Kali For Women, 1998

• Sylvia Walby, Theorising Patriarchy, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.1997

• Amy. S. Wharton, The Sociology Of Gender, West Sussex : Blackwell-Wiley Publishers,2012

• Nivedita Menon [ed.], Gender and Politics, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999

• Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex, London: Picador, 1988

• Alison Jaggar, Feminist Politics And Human Nature, Brighton: Harvester Press,1983

• Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi, Gender, Justice, Development and Rights, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002