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Recasting Public Administration in India

Kuldeep Mathur
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      This book is an important contribution to critical literature on public administration in India. It examines efforts at administrative reforms and the shifts that created new institutions and practices that are being planted on the existing foundations inherited from colonial rule. It provides an account of the unsuccessful attempts at administrative reform during the plan period in spite of advice of numerous committees and commissions and reports of internationalexperts. It identifies the role of the political leadership in eroding its professed values of neutrality and professionalism and turning it into an instrument of achieving its own political goals. The adoption of neo-liberal policies for development are examined in how they changed the perspective onreform, and new institutions within this paradigm began to be installed without changing the existing ones. The book argues that hybrid architecture for delivering public goods and services has been the most significant transformation to be institutionalized in the current era. This is marked by the blurred boundaries between public values of access and equity and the interests of private profit, as well as the erosion of democratic accountability. With the diminishing ability of serving thepublic interest, these trends open up critical questions of whose interests does the State serve, and whether it still makes sense to call it 'public administration'.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kuldeep Mathur EAN: 9780199490356 COUNTRY: India PAGES: WEIGHT: 350 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: OUP India DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-17 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration WIDTH: 149 cm SPINE:

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      India, Political leaders and leadership, Public administration, Central / national / federal government

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      Kuldeep Mathur is retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi. He is former Rector, of JNU and Director of National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA). A recipient of awards for his academic contribution from Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants, he has been a member of United Nations Committee of Experts in PublicAdministration (UNCEPA). He has published on subjects as public policy processes, bureaucracy and decentralization. His latest publications include From Government to Governance A Brief Survey of Indian Experience (National Book Trust, 2008), Public Policy and Politics in India How Institutions Matter(Oxford University Press 2012), Panchayati Raj (Oxford University Press 2013)/
      This book is an important contribution to critical literature on public administration in India. It examines efforts at administrative reforms and the shifts that created new institutions and practices that are being planted on the existing foundations inherited from colonial rule. It provides an account of the unsuccessful attempts at administrative reform during the plan period in spite of advice of numerous committees and commissions and reports of internationalexperts. It identifies the role of the political leadership in eroding its professed values of neutrality and professionalism and turning it into an instrument of achieving its own political goals. The adoption of neo-liberal policies for development are examined in how they changed the perspective onreform, and new institutions within this paradigm began to be installed without changing the existing ones. The book argues that hybrid architecture for delivering public goods and services has been the most significant transformation to be institutionalized in the current era. This is marked by the blurred boundaries between public values of access and equity and the interests of private profit, as well as the erosion of democratic accountability. With the diminishing ability of serving thepublic interest, these trends open up critical questions of whose interests does the State serve, and whether it still makes sense to call it 'public administration'.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Kuldeep Mathur EAN: 9780199490356 COUNTRY: India PAGES: WEIGHT: 350 g HEIGHT: 225 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: OUP India DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-01-17 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration WIDTH: 149 cm SPINE:

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      India, Political leaders and leadership, Public administration, Central / national / federal government

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      Kuldeep Mathur is retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi. He is former Rector, of JNU and Director of National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA). A recipient of awards for his academic contribution from Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants, he has been a member of United Nations Committee of Experts in PublicAdministration (UNCEPA). He has published on subjects as public policy processes, bureaucracy and decentralization. His latest publications include From Government to Governance A Brief Survey of Indian Experience (National Book Trust, 2008), Public Policy and Politics in India How Institutions Matter(Oxford University Press 2012), Panchayati Raj (Oxford University Press 2013)/

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