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Optional · Public Administration

26 topics · 2 sections — from the official UPSC syllabus. Study material lands topic by topic.

Paper I · Administrative Theory

  1. 1
    Introduction
    1. 1.Introduction to Public Administration18 min
  2. 2
    Administrative Thought
    1. 1.Administrative Thought: Scientific Management to Participative Management23 min
  3. 3
    Administrative Behaviour
    1. 1.Administrative Behaviour: Decision-Making, Communication, Morale, Motivation and Leadership25 min
  4. 4
    Organisations
    1. 1.Organisations: Theory, Structure and the Regulatory-PPP State27 min
  5. 5
    Accountability and Control
    1. 1.Accountability and Control20 min
  6. 6
    Administrative Law
    1. 1.Administrative Law: Meaning, Scope and Significance; Dicey on Administrative Law; Delegated Legislation; Administrative Tribunals17 min
  7. 7
    Comparative Public Administration
    1. 1.Comparative Public Administration: Institutional History, Riggs, and the Limits of the Available Record18 min
  8. 8
    Development Dynamics
    1. 1.Development Dynamics19 min
  9. 9
    Personnel Administration
    1. 1.Personnel Administration25 min
  10. 10
    Public Policy
    1. 1.Public Policy: Models of Policy-Making, the Policy Process, and State Theories33 min
  11. 11
    Techniques of Administrative Improvement
    1. 1.Techniques of Administrative Improvement15 min
  12. 12
    Financial Administration
    1. 1.Financial Administration: Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Public Debt, Budgets, and Accountability27 min

Paper II · Indian Administration

  1. 1
    Evolution of Indian Administration
    1. 1.Evolution of Indian Administration24 min
  2. 2
    Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of Government
    1. 1.Philosophical and Constitutional Framework of Government — Salient Features, Constitutionalism, Political Culture, and the Bureaucracy's Place in a Democracy19 min
  3. 3
    Public Sector Undertakings
    1. 1.Public Sector Undertakings25 min
  4. 4
    Union Government and Administration
    1. 1.Union Government and Administration: Executive, Parliament, Judiciary27 min
  5. 5
    Plans and Priorities
    1. 1.Plans and Priorities: Machinery of Planning, the Planning Commission and NDC, Indicative Planning, and Decentralized Planning18 min
  6. 6
    State Government and Administration
    1. 1.State Government and Administration: Union-State Relations, Finance Commission, Governor, Chief Minister, Council of Ministers, Chief Secretary, State Secretariat, Directorates19 min
  7. 7
    District Administration since Independence
    1. 1.District Administration since Independence14 min
  8. 8
    Civil Services
    1. 1.Civil Services: Constitutional Position, Structure, Conduct, Neutrality and Activism24 min
  9. 9
    Financial Management
    1. 1.Financial Management: Budget, Parliamentary Control, the Finance Ministry, Accounting and Audit14 min
  10. 10
    Administrative Reforms since Independence
    1. 1.Administrative Reforms since Independence15 min
  11. 11
    Rural Development
    1. 1.Rural Development: Institutions, Programmes, Decentralization and the 73rd Amendment20 min
  12. 12
    Urban Local Government
    1. 1.Urban Local Government: Municipal Governance, the 74th Amendment, and the Limits of Constitutional Design14 min
  13. 13
    Law and Order Administration
    1. 1.Law and Order Administration: British Legacy, Police Reform, and the Central-State Security Architecture23 min
  14. 14
    Significant Issues in Indian Administration
    1. 1.Significant Issues in Indian Administration30 min

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