Public Administration Theory And Practice University Of Calicut

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Can you provide me the syllabus of BA Political Science III Semester Core Course - Public Administration: Theory and Practice - offered by School of Distance Education University of Calicut?

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The syllabus of BA Political Science III Semester Core Course - Public Administration: Theory and Practice - offered by School of Distance Education University of Calicut is as follows:

MODULE- I
Definition, Nature, Scope and Importance of Public Administration - Public Administration and Private Administration

Public Administration is an aspect of a more generic concept of administration. Public Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. Some of the various definitions which have been offered for them are: the management of public programmes; and the study of government decision making, the analysis of the policies themselves, the various inputs that have produced them, and the inputs necessary to produce alternative policies. Public Administration is centrally concerned with the organization of government policies and programmes as well as the behaviour of officials formally responsible for their conduct.

Before understanding the meaning of public administration, it is necessary to understand the meaning of the word administration. The English word administer is derived from a combination of two Latin words ad and ministrate meaning ‘to serve or manage. Literally, the term administration means management the affairs of public or private. Administration refers to mobilisation of resources human and material- to achieve pre-set of objectives. Administration is thus an activity undertaken in pursuit of the realisation of a goal. It is an effort requiring a group of persons, each individually carrying out certain allotted tasks, which when so performed by all, leads to the achievement of an objective which has already been established and made explicit.

Public Administration is a part, even though a large and important part, of administration. Administration means performance of the executive functions of the state. Public Administration lends itself to two usages. It refers to the practice. Also, it means a field of intellectual enquiry or discipline. Public Administration refers to the study of the activities of the State, but these activities may relate to the executive or the legislature or the judiciary. Many thinkers restrict it to the executive. But some scholars would have broaden the definition of the term and extended it to all the three branches. Public Administration refers to the organisation and management of activities financed from the tax-payers money.

Syllabus BA Political Science III Semester Core Course - Public Administration Theory and Practice School of Distance Education University of Calicut