New Horizons of Public Administration

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Public Administration as a discipline lid to be concerned earlier about its identity. Most textbooks have dealt with the subject from this traditional point of view. Under the impact of powerful domestic and international forces and new conceptualisations of administrative reality, the discipline today is more concerned about explaining diversity, complexity and interactivity. Globalisation and opening up of the economy is a reality now. The earlier role of exclusivity is no longer being accorded to the state and government. In a complex state-society relational situation, the focus has been shifting more and more toward society. Networking with other organisations, rather than exclusivity of government, is what is happening in the practising world of governance. There are new phrases being coined to characterise the new public administration. The "New Public Management", "Reinventing Government", Enterpreneurial Government" are some of the new concepts being introduced in the subject to connote the present and evolving scenario of public management. This book covers all these and many other new themes of contemporary importance. About The Author A well-known scholar in the discipline of PubII Administration, Professor Mohit Bhattacharya has been Professor of Organisational Analysis at the IIPA, New Delhi. Subsequently, he held the chair of Centenary Professor of Public Administration, Calcutta University. For eight years he served as the Vice-Chancellor of Burdwan University, West Bengal. He was awarded the prestigious National Fellowship of the 1CSSR, New Delhi. Table Of Contents 1. Public Administration: Nature, Scope & Evolution 2. Organizational Effectiveness 3. Public-Private Dichotomy 4. Approaches, Principles and Theories 5. Bureaucratic Theory 6. Behavioural and Systems Approaches 7. Goals, Policies and Implementation 8. Planning, Organisation and structural Concepts 9. Administrative Processes : Decision Making 10. Communication, control, Motivation Leadership 11. Interorganisatinal Relations 12. Politics and Administration 13. Public administration and the public 14. Administrative Reform 15. Comparative Public Administration 16. Development Administration 17. Public personnel Adminisstration 18. Financial Administration 19. The new public management : An Epilogue 20. Good "Governance" 21. Governmental Accountability 22. Administrative Ethics 23. Contemporary Public Administration 24. Globlization and Public Administration 25. Postscript : Postmodernism and public 26. civil society and Governance 27. Right to Imformation 28. Participation and Governance 29. E-Government 30. Technique of Administrative Improvement 31. Networl Theory : Impacta on public Administration Index