Public Administration / Mohit Bhattacharya

Chapter-1: Public administration: Nature significance and evolution;
Chapter-2: Efficiency in Government: Public-private debate;
Chapter-3: Theories of administration;
Chapter-4: Basic concept;
Chapter-5: Max weber and bureaucratic theory;
Chapter-6: Human relations and behavioural approaches;
Chapter-7: Decision-making and policy-making;
Chapter-8: Administration in action;
Chapter-9: Comparative public administration and development administration;
Chapter-10: People's participation in development;
Chapter-11: Administration in socialist countries;
Chapter-12: Personal administration;
Chapter-13: Cadre system and position classification compared;
Chapter-14: Financial administration;
Chapter-15: The new public management paradigm;
Chapter-16: Governance and public administration;
Chapter-17: Impact of globalisation on public administration;
Chapter-18: Right to information in a democracy;
Chapter-19: Networking: Contemporary trend in public administration;
Chapter-20: Civic engagement and social accountability;
Chapter-21: Gender concern in administrative studies;
Chapter-22: Public administration: An evolving scenario;

This book is in many ways an original contribution to the study of public administration. Its focus is on political management of public affairs and the illustration are drawn almost wholly from India and the developing countries. Major theoretical contributions to the discipline have been related to the politico-administrative situation in the developing countries. Available research findings have been used fairly liberally to provide empirical support to the discussion and to illuminate the conceptual issues.