Public Administration : Roots and Wings

Contents: Preface. 1. Introducing the discipline. 2. Ecology of public administration. 3. Theories of organization. 4. Principles of organization. 5. Structure of organization. 6. Public policy. 7. Personnel administration. 8. Financial administration. 9. Citizen and administration. 10. Social welfare administration. 11. Urban and rural administration. Bibliography. Index.

"The book ‘Public Administration-- Roots and Wings’ is a comprehensive and wholesome survey and analysis of the discipline of public administration. The origin of comparative practices and their detours into other disciplines of social sciences has been efficiently handled. The book would enable the reader to understand and deal with most of the tricky questions and intractable administrative problems prevailing in contemporary India. The onslaught of globalization, privatization and liberalization which is threatening and transforming the foundations of the discipline are also, at the sametime helping it to introspect and shed its extra baggage which it had been carrying since colonial times. The discipline is challenged. The new buzzword is ‘governance’ in the emerging entrepreneurial state. The deals with the new currents into the discipline without breaking the chord of their historical and territorial origin."