PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: 22 October 2016
- What do you understand by “Office of profit”? Comment on recent Delhi Assembly bill to exclude “Parlimentary secretary position” from “Office of Profit” (150 Words)
- “Citizen participation cannot be called the ultimate solution for our problems. People are not competent to take an informed decision with longterm perspective” Do you agree? Examine in the light of referendums of Britain, Scotland, Colombia, Iceland, Egypt, Greece, Hungary etc. (Go through all these referendums 🙂 if you have not already.) (200 Words)
- ”A basic cause for inter-agency conflict is the frequent inconsistencies or vagueness of public policy goals.’’ (150 Words)
- ”It is easy to understand why Weber’s Bureaucratic model, designed to describe the characteristics of an ideal-type Bureaucracy working in a relatively stable environment, lacks dynamic elements, but is it hard to defend the equilibrium oriented prismatic model of Riggs, which in essence is intended to explain the administration of developing countries.” Evaluate. (200 Words)
- ”Transitional inducement to administrative reforms as a stratagem must proceed as an autonomous action, irrespective of the rate of maturation of the larger political process.” [Braibanti] Comment. (150 Words)
- Do you think Barnard’s concept of Contribution-Satisfaction Equilibrium was precursor of Argyris’s Fusion model. Relate both theoretical postulates & explain, how fusion model is needed in modern contemporary days. (250 Words)
