Revised Syllabus and Recommended Books of Public Adminstration
 

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PAPER: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (100 MARKS)

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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][B]I. Public Administration:[/B] Concepts, Approaches and Context Definitions; Role and Scope of Public Administration in Society; Issues in Public Administration Theory and Practice – Democracy verses Bureaucracy, Politics versus Administration, Efficiency versus Equity; Core Values of Public Administration – Rule ofLaw, Efficiency, Equity and Fairness, Responsiveness; Traditional Public Administration; New Public Management; New Public Service; Governance Approach to Public Administration; Islamic Concept of Public Administration; Historical roots of Public administration in Pakistan.

[B]II. Public Organization:[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3] [FONT=Verdana] Classical and Contemporary Theories and Concepts Bureaucracy; Scientific Management; The Human Relations; Leadership, Motivation, Network; Governance; Strategic Management; Public Choice; Administrative Culture; Types of Organizational Structure; Organization of Federal, Provincial, and Local Government in Pakistan; Administrative Culture of Pakistan; Inter-governmental Relations at Federal and Provincial level in Pakistan.

[B]III. Public Policy Planning, Implementation and Evaluation [/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] Strategic Planning and Management; Planning Process; Policy Analysis; Policy Implementation; Program Evaluation; Planning Machinery; Role of Donors and International Institutions in Public Policy and Management; Policy making and implementation of Federal Government of Pakistan.

[B]IV. Budgeting and Financial Management :-[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] The Budget as a Policy Tool; The Budget as a Managerial Tool; Principles of Budgeting, Auditing and Accounting in Government; The Line-Item Budget; The Performance Budget; Program Budgeting; Zero-Base Budgeting; Outcome-Based Budgeting. Planning and Budgeting in Pakistan.

[B]V. Managing Human Resources [/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]:-Spoil versus Merit System in Public Employment; Personnel versus Human Resources Management; Close versus Open System of Public Employment; Functions of Human Resources Management; Challenges of Adopting HRM in Public Sector.

[B]VI. Administrative Law :[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Meaning, Scope and Significance; Nature and Contents of Administrative Law, Administrative Ethics, Delegation of authority and Legislation, Administrative Tribunals;
Administrative Law- Pakistan.

[B]VII. Public Management Skills :-[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] Communication; Decision Making, Conflict Management; Leading, Administrative Buffering; Managing Change; Managing Diversity; Stress Management; Delegation; Public Service Motivation; Creativity and Problem Solving; Issues of Public Management.

[B]VIII. The Civil Service of Pakistan:-[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Historical Background of Civil Service, The Structure of civil Service; History of Civil Service Reform; Management of Civil Service; Institutional and Cultural Context of Civil Service; Role of Civil Service in Good Governance, Gender and Civil Service.

[B]IX. Organization of Provincial and Local Government[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] :- Governance Structure of Provincial Administration; Organization of Provincial Secretariat; Organization and Functions of Provincial Authorities and Agencies and their Relationship with Government Departments; Post-devolution Local Governance; Organization and Functions of District Government and Administration; Organization and Structure of City District Government; Issues and Challenges of Local Governance.

[B]X. Governance and Administrative Reforms[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]:- Theories of Administrative Reforms; Types of Administrative Reforms, Privatization, Regulation, De-regulation, Decentralization, Business Re-engineering, Quality Assurance; Administrative Reform in Pakistan.

[B]XI. Public Administration: Accountability & Control:-[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] Bureaucratic Responsiveness; Representative Bureaucracy; Citizens Engagement in Public Service; Accountability & Control, The Concept and Approaches to Public Accountability of Public Service; Institutional Framework for Administrative Accountability; Legislative, Executive and Judicial Control over Administration, Administrative Corruption; Role of Civil Society in Good Governance, Media, Interest Groups, Civil Society Organizations; The Situation in Pakistan.

[B]XII. Public Administration and Development [/B][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]:- Role of Public Administration in Development; Concept of Development Administration; Difference Between Development Administration and Development Management; Changing Role of Public Administration in Development, Issues and Challenges in Public Administration- The Pakistan Situation.
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[SIZE=5][COLOR=Green]SUGGESTED READINGS

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[FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3] 1. Public Administration[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Denhardt, R

2. Public Administration – Understanding Management, Politics and Law in the Public Sector[COLOR=white]------------[/COLOR]David H. Rosenbloom

3. Public Administration[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Caiden, Gerald. E,

4. Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century[COLOR=white]-------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Cooper et al,

5. Organization Theory for Public Administration[COLOR=white]------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Harmon, Michael M. & Mayer. Richard T

6. Public Administration and Public Affairs[COLOR=white]--------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Nicholas Henry,

7. Classics of Public Administration[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Shafritz, J. and Hyde,

8. Public Administration Dictionary[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Candler, R. & Plano, J

9. Reinventing Government[COLOR=white]-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Osbourne, D. and Gaebler, I.

10. Bureaucracy, Basic Books[COLOR=white]----------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Wilson, J. Q.,

11. Evolution of Pakistan’s Administration System[COLOR=white]----------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Braibanti, Ralph

12. Human Development in South Asia: The Crises of Governance[COLOR=white]-----------------------------------------[/COLOR] Khadija Mahbub-ul-Haque

13. Bureaucracy in Pakistan[COLOR=white]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Kennedy, Charles H.,

14. Public Administration and Law[COLOR=white]------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Beckett, Julia & Koenig Heidi O.

15. Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective[COLOR=white]-----------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Heady, Ferrel

16. Public Administration and Public Management: The Principle Agent Perspective[COLOR=white]------------------------[/COLOR] Lane, Jan-Erik

17. Governance: South Asian Perspective[COLOR=white]--------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Hasnat Abdul Hye

18. Governance, Economic Policy and Reform in Pakistan[COLOR=white]-----------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Abdus Samad

19. Government and Administration in Pakistan[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Jameelur Rehman Khan

20. Public Administration: with special reference to Pakistan[COLOR=white]--------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Sultan Khan

21. Public Administration in India[COLOR=white]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR] Hoshiar Singh

22. Public Administration in Asia Vol. I & II[COLOR=white]-----------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Kalyanaraman Srinivasan

23. Organizational Theory and the Public Sector[COLOR=white]------------------------------------------------------------------[/COLOR]Christensen, T., Laegreid, P., Roness, P. and Rovik, K[/SIZE][/FONT]