Public Administration in the 21st Century

Contents: Preface. I. Proceedings of the Conference inaugural session. i. Business sessions. ii. Papers presented in the Conference: (a). Public administration: trends, challenges and reforms: 1. Trends in public administration/S. Bhoopathi Rao and M. Lingaiah. 2. Internationalisation of public administration: overcoming historical barries/Sujata Singh. 3. Public administration in 21st century/V. Bhaskara Rao. 4. Civil service reforms: an agenda for 21st century/Harbans Pathak. II. New paradigms in public administration: 5. Public administration and postmodernism/Noorjahan Bava. 6. New public management: emerging concerns/Ramesh K. Arora. 7. Politics: administration dichotomy revisited in the NPM context/C.V. Raghavulu. 8. Globalization, technological innovations and public administration: challenges and constraints/Asha Gupta. III. Human resource development/human rights: 9. HRD initiatives for Organisational growth/Bharati Sharma. 10. The government as learning organization: a globalized HRD model for leadership, creativity and destress/Prem Saran. 11. Police administration and custodial crimes in Delhi in the Context of Human Rights/Radhanath Tripathy. IV. IT revolution, E-Governance and Public Administration:  12. Social value creation through information and knowledge: vision of the 21st century/R.K. Sachdeva. 13. Electronic Democracy: concepts, trends and implications for India/Y. Pardhasaradhi and J. Musalaiah. 14. Public administration and ICT paradigm/Y. Pardhasaradhi, K.V. Ramesh Raju and T.V. Venkatamallu. V. Good Governance and public Administration: 15. Good governance at the grassroots level/S.C. Aroara. 16. Good Governance for sustainable development: A study of people\'s institutions in rural Andhra Pradesh/T. Satyanarayana. 17. Delivering social services: A case study/Renuka Garg and Priti Garg. 18. Public grievance redressal system in India/Inderjeet Kaur. VI: Decentralized Governance and development administration: 19. Glocalization in Mumbai/Marina R. Pinto. 20. Urban Governance in Andhra Pradesh: an appraisal/B.V. Chalapathi. 21. Gender issues in global development/Lipi Mukhopadhyay. 22. Empowerment of women/Shiv Raj Singh. 23. Women\'s empowerment in the Panchayati Raj system: the case of Orissa/Sangita Dhal. 24. Article 356 and centre-state relations in India/S.S. Tiwana. 25. Higher education in India: policy issues and challenges/Yasodha Shanmugasundaram and Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram. Index.

"This book marks apart of the Golden Jubilee celebration of the prestigious Indian Institute of Public Administration, founded by Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru in 1954. It is the outcome of the dialogue, debate and presentation made at the two-day (December 12-13, 2003) National Conference on Public Administration in 21st Century organized by Prof. Noorjahan Bava, Member, Executive Council, IIPA. A galaxy of public administrators from universities across the country and senior administrators who participated in the Conference took cognizance of the paradigm shift in Public Administration towards Postmodernism, New Public Management, Good Governance, E-governance etc. In response to the sea-change in world environment and national milieu caused by unprecedented global developments and events in the last 50 years." (jacket)