Public administration
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty, Mohit Bhattacharya.
Contributors: Chakrabarty, Vidyut, 1958-; Bhattacharya, Mohit.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Public administration -- India.; Civil service -- India.; India -- Politics and government -- 1977-
Description: Contributed articles with partial reference to India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-417) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptual development in the West / B.B. Mishra; title: The ideal type of bureaucracy / Nicos P. Mouzelis; title: Rigg's 'administrative ecology' / Ramesh K. Arora; title: Marxist contributions to the theory of the administrative state / O.P. Dwivedi, William Graf and J. Nef; title: Administration in the eighties : major trends and challenges / V. Subramaniam; title: The consolidation of adjustment : implications for public administration / Richard Batley; title: The governance agenda : making democratic development dispensable / Niraja Gopal Jayal; title: Governance as theory : five propositions / Gerry Stoker; title: Running government like a business : implications for public administration : theory and practice / Richard C. Box; title: The state and its permanent government / L.I. and S.H. Rudolph; title: Civil service : continuity and change / P.C. Alexander; title: Voluntary associations and development impreratives : the Indian experience / Bidyut Chakrabarty; title: Bureacracy and politics in India / Mohit Bhattacharya; title: Bureacracy at crossroads / Madhav Godbole; title: Changeful society and changeless governance / Nirmal Mukarji; title: Strenghthening bureaucracy : state and development in India / Kuldeep Mathur; title: Human rights dimensions of public administration in India / Jaytilak Guha Roy.