Programme of work for the week ending 16th June 2013

We have been studying: failure of Development Administration, failure to tackle issues relating to poverty and allied topics. Students have made presentations on a variety of topics: Arjun Raghunandan on Poverty in India, Anil Kumar on State Market Debate and Gender Justice, Gaurav Gupta on Failure of Development Administration, Pratiksha on Gandhian Environmentalism etc., They […]

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Public Administration Blog 2 2013 Batch

Two great systems of public administration had developed in the West : the Anglo-American, and the French. The first, as Leonard White has pointed out, has been based on a deep seated preference for self-government in local communities, wide citizen participation, dispersion of authority, well-established responsibility of the administrative system to the legislative body, and […]

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160. Comprehension Test on Judicial Accountability

Judicial Activism Answers to the questions will be given in the class to those who take the test.  I. Study the following passage and answer the questions below. Additionally, it could be argued that judicial activism is necessary because it is difficult to decide court cases based on the when the framers’ are long dead, […]

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159. Comprehension Test on Behaviouralism

Comprehension test on Behaviouralism Answers to questions will be given in the class to those who have take the test I. Behaviouralism as a Political Approach I. Prior to the “Behavioralist revolution”, political science being a science at all was disputed. ]Critics saw the study of politics as being primarily qualitative and normative, and claimed […]

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158. Introucing a new Series: Blogs by Students! Unit 1 Mr. Anilkumar

This is a new initiative sponsored by the Institute. They are encouraged to write in their own words and when references are made to acknowledge the source. And no copy and paste please! Make the best use of this opportunity and prove to  yourselves that you CAN DO! PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION by Anilkumar Public Interest […]

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