Encyclopaedia of Public Administration and Public Policy

This publication titled deals with the history, branches and types of public administration, government service and public service, including the bureaucracy and civil service. An overview of civil society and volunteerism; role of citizens in inculcating public-social-private partnership and local government; concept, principles, charters, paradigms and theories of public administration; and scope, nature, elements and functions of public administration and personnel administration are reflected upon briefly. Focus also lies on relationship among public administration, democracy, accountability and public dealing; professional administration and new public management; methods of redressing grievances, public maladministration and bureaucratic dysfunction; good administration, law and enforcement; and administrative law, proceedings and statutes. Ethics in public administration and public sector are described. A detailed perspective on public health administration is given, so are the initiatives towards analyzing correctional administration in India under the English influence. An overview of public relations, public administration and management is given. The digital era e-governance mentioned. An overview of policy analysis and public policy administration is given. The methods and institutions related to public administration education and its relation to other sciences and social sciences are discussed. The academic degrees in subject areas of public administration are covered, so is the analysis of select institutions and scholars. The Indian civil service and all its branches are described in full detail.

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