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UPSC CSE - Public Administration Optional

UPSC CSE Public Administration Optional Syllabus

 Paper 1: 

Administration Theory

 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 liberalisation, 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 

  •     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 

  •     Concept of development; 
  •     Changing profile of development administration; 
  •     ‘Anti-development thesis’; 
  •     Bureaucracy and development; 
  •     Strong state versus the market debate; 
  •     Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries; 
  •     Women and development of the self-help group movement.

Personnel Administration

  • Importance of human resource development;
  • Recruitment, training, career advancement, position classification, discipline, performance appraisal, promotion, pray 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.


Paper 2: 

Indian Administration

Evolution of Indian Administration

  • Kautilya 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 liberalisation and privatisation.

Union Government and Administration

  •     Executive, Parliament, Judiciary-structure, functions, work processes; 
  •     Recent trends; 
  •     Intra-governmental relations; 
  •     Cabinet Secretariat; 
  •     Prime Minister’s Office; 
  •     Central Secretariat; 
  •     Ministries and Departments; 
  •     Boards; 
  •     Commissions; 
  •     Attached offices; 
  •     Field organisations.

Plans and Priorities

  • Machinery of planning; 
  • Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; 
  • ‘Indicative’ planning; 
  •  Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels; 
  •  Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralised planning for economic development and social justice.

State Government and Administration

  •     Union-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; 
  •     Role of the Finance Commission; 
  •     Governor; 
  •     Chief Minister; 
  •     Council of Ministers; 
  •     Chief Secretary; 
  •     State Secretariat; 
  •     Directorates.

District Administration since Independence

  •     Changing role of the Collector; 
  •     Union-State-local relations; 
  •     Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; 
  •     District administration and democratic decentralisation.

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 and 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; 
  •     Global-local 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 para military forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism; 
  • Criminalisation of politics and administration; 
  •  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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