Anupama Puri Mahajan

Insights of Administrative Thinkers (eBook, PDF)

Exploring the Foundations of Public Administration

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a lucid and comprehensive account of the contributions of eminent theorists to the study of public administration and management. It introduces its readers to the works of 32 esteemed thinkers in the field of administrative theories. It provides life sketches of all the thinkers along with an outline of their contributions and a critical discussion of their seminal work.

With a focused emphasis on individual thinkers, this volume covers all the major administrative theories that have evolved over the last 600 years, such as the oriental, classical, and administrative schools of thought, organisational humanism, and public choice theories of administration. The impact of postmodernism, poststructuralism and critical social theory on public administration has also been analysed in the context of their relevance to the modern world.

Written as per the prescribed curriculum, the book will serve as a helpful companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of public administration and political science. It will be useful to students, researchers and teachers of public administration, public policy, political science, and management. The book will also be an invaluable companion to policymakers in the government sector as it will strengthen their conceptual understanding of the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 554
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040299876
• Artikelnr.: 73476353

Autorenporträt

Anupama Puri Mahajan is an accomplished researcher and author in Public Administration. Her extensive work includes several published books and numerous research articles. Notable publications include Financial Administration in India (PHI India, 2014), Public Administration (Pearson Publishers), Development Administration in India (Sage Publishers, 2019), and her latest, Public Personnel Administration: Functionality and Challenges (Routledge). Anupama Puri Mahajan has contributed to leading academic journals such as Public Administration Review, Asian Governance: Paradoxes of Development, and Dynamics of Public Administration. Her research spans topics like public-private partnerships, natural disaster mitigation, and corporate social responsibility in India, reflecting her deep commitment to academic scholarship and passion for innovative ideas and perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I
ORIENTAL THOUGHT 1. Sun Tzu
The Art of War 2. Kautilya
Arthashastra PART II
CLASSICAL SCHOOL OF THOUGHT 3. Woodrow Wilson
The Study of Administration 4. James David Mooney
Principles of Organisation 5. Frederick Winslow Taylor
Scientific Management 6. Henri Fayol: Foundations of Administrative Management 7. Luther Gulick and Lyndall Urwick
the science of administration PART III: THE BUREAUCRATIC SCHOOL OF THOUGHT 8. Karl Marx
State and Bureaucracy 9. Max Weber
Bureaucracy 10. Samuel Krislov and Donald Kingsley
Representative Bureaucracy 11. Gordon Tullock
The Politics of Bureaucracy PART IV
SOCIAL SYSTEM SCHOOL OF THOUGHT 12. Mary Parker Follett
Constructive Conflict and Leadership 13. Elton Mayo
Human Relations Movement 14. Chester I. Barnard
Functions of the Executive PART V: ADMINISTRATIVE SCHOOL OF THOUGHT 15. Herbert A. Simon
Administrative Behaviour 16. Dwight Waldo
The Administrative State 17. F. W. Riggs
Ecology of Public Administration 18. Robert Alan Dahl
Problems of Science of Administration 19. Robert T. Golembiewski
Public Administration as a Developing Discipline PART VI
ORGANISATIONAL HUMANISM 20. Abraham Maslow
Needs Hierarchy Theory 21. Frederick Herzberg
Hygiene and Motivation Factors 22. Douglas McGregor
Motivation and Leadership 23. Chris Argyris
Integrating the Individual and The Organisation 24. Rensis Likert
Systems Management 25. Peter F. Drucker
Management PART VII
PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY 26. James M. Buchanan
Public Choice Theory (The Calculus of Consent) 27. Elinor Ostrom
Public Choice Theory; Governing the Commons 28. Janet Vinzant Denhardt and Robert B. Denhardt
New Public Service 29. Yehezkel Dror
Public Policymaking PART VIII
EMERGING TRENDS 30. Postmodernism And Post
Structuralism Part I 31. Poststructuralism 32. Critical Social Theory