Introduction
SECTION A: CHANGING DISCOURSES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

1. Trajectory of Public Administration as a Discipline in India

Nature of the discipline
Evolution of the discipline
Changing stances within the discipline

2. Classical Theories of Public Administration

Scientific management theory
Bureaucratic theory
Human relations theory
Decision-making theory
Ecological theory

3. Publicness of Public Administration: Minnowbrook Conferences
First Minnowbrook Conference, 1968
Second Minnowbrook Conference, 1988
Third Minnowbrook Conference, 2008

4. Contemporary Theoretical Developments
New Public Administration (NPA)
New Public Management (NPM)
Feminist approach
Good governance
Corporate governance, environmental governance and e-governance
SECTION B: NON-WESTERN TRADITIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE THEORIES

5. Conceptual Intervention: Gandhi, Mao and Nyerere
Village swaraj
Commune
Ujamaa
SECTION C: GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNANCE: DEMOCRACY AS COLLABORATIVE EXERCISE

6. Defining Governance
Historical roots of governance
Theoretical roots of governance
Initiatives of the World Bank
Good-enough governance
Privileging the private over the public
Deconstructing governance
New governmental designs

7. Public Policy: Conceptual Exploration
Public policy as an emerging field of study
Defining public policy
Public problems as reasons for public policy
Texture and dimensions of public policies
Classification of public policies
Models to understand public policy dynamics
Institutional model, process model, group model, elite model, rational model, incremental model, normative-optimal model, game theory, system model, public choice model and garbage can model
Public policy cycle
Formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation
Emerging dimensions in policy science

8. Major Public Policies in India
Environment policy
Education policy
Health policy
Employment policy

9. Ethics in Governance
Attempting a definition of ethics in governance
Recommendations of the ARC
Ethics committees
Rajya Sabha ethics committee and Lok Sabha ethics committee

10. Citizen-centric Administration: The Heart of Governance
Situating citizens in governance
Reforms within the system
Administrative accountability, decentralisation, redressal of public grievances, right to information, citizens’ charters and e-governance
The role of civil society

11. Local Governance: Empowering People at the Grassroots
History of decentralisation in India
Rural local governance
73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992
Weaknesses of the system
Urban local governance
74th Constitutional Amendment Act, 1992
Major challenges before the system
Implications of 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Acts