
Introduce formal aspects of public administration through the Mina Brooke Conference, tracing inaugurals from 1968 to 2008 and the rise of new public management and LPG.
Explore new public administration and its four themes—relevance, values, social equity, and change—and its shift toward realism in addressing day-to-day public life and disasters at national and state levels.
Explore civil society’s interface with state and governance, zone of indifference concepts, and the role of vestibule training, simulation, and queuing theory in public administration.
Explore new public administration through the prismatic society framework, contrasting fused, fractured, and prismatic types. Analyze heterogeneity, overlapping, and formalism within a functional-structural approach.
Explore new public administration and sociometric theory, noting leadership varies with organizational structure and the state’s interdependent elements, alongside behavioral modifications using operant conditioning and reinforcement.
This lecture explains new public management as a private-sector inspired approach to public administration, emphasizing output targets, monetary incentives, quasi markets, contracts, and performance appraisal to boost efficiency.
Explore how economic and ecological imbalances and their interdependence shape public policy, sustainability, and resource use, from garbage can and circular response models to discourse theory and constructive conflicts.
This course, Formal Aspects of Public Administration, explains Public Administration which is a core Instrument of any Government Machinery, implementing policies and programs in the interest of the society as a whole.
It imbibes the right spirits from Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, who when asked about Government, briefly answered that it was all about straightening.
In fact, today also Government means straightening, straightening the bad elements of society and protecting the good people from the vice and evil.
Administration of a state in USA is a complex and profound task. Having to prepare one in guiding the basic lessons in Public Administration also is a daunting task. However, the most important task of all, is to give out the basic lessons in Administration, so that the Public Administrator who may lead us from the front tomorrow, has a staunch set of Fundamentals and Ideals in Public Administration and would lead us in such a way that they truly remain the most admired leaders of the Society.
This course is one among the many beginner’s courses, that may give a more basic insight to Public Administration fundamentals, from whatever has happened in the past few decades of developments, in the field of Public Administration, that would prep the Public Administrators to steer way, well towards future developments in the same field.