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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Paper—I
Time Allowed : Three Hours
Maximum Marks : 300)
INSTRUCTIONS
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clearly on the cover of the answer-book in the space provided
for the purpose. No marks will be given for the answers
written in a medium other than that specified in the Admission
Certificate.
Candidates should attempt Questions no. 1 and 5 which are
compulsory, and any three of the remaining questions
selecting at least one question from each Section.
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indicated against each.
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its parts/sub-parts must be attempted contiguously. This
means that before moving on to the next Question to be
attempted, candidates must finish attempting all parts/
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1. Answer the following questions in not more than
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(a) 'On a more sophisticated plane public choice is
concerned with "Pareto optimality", or at least
with "Pareto improvements".' Comment.
(b) `In the canonization of this abstract idea of
`Staatsraison' are inseparably woven the sure
instincts of the bureaucracy for the conditions
which preserve its own power in the State' [Weber].
Explain.
(c) 'Man's motives ... in different subparts of the
same organization may be different' [Edgar
Schein]. Discuss.
(d) Leadership is the 'influential increment over and
above mechanical compliance with the routine
directives of the organization' [Katz and Kahn].
Analyze.
(e) 'Policy judgements comprise reality judgements,
value judgements and instrumental judgements'
[Geoffrey Vickers]. Elucidate.
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(a) Flow would you trace the development of Public
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the National Association of Schools of Public
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in 1970 ?
(b) (i) In what respects is Taylor's 'Scientific
Management' or classical motivational theory
different from the classical organizational
theory expounded by Gulick, Urwick etc ?
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(ii) What light does Antonio Gramsci's critique
of Taylorism throw on its socio-psychological
underpinnings ?
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(a) 'Three features characterize Simon's original view
of bounded rationality : search for alternatives,
sattsficing, and aspiration adaptation.' Elucidate.
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organization.' Give your reactions to this
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(ii) In the light of your discussion on 3(b) (i)
above, also show where and how this 'fitting'
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4. (a) 'Open access to government records is ... the
hallmark of a democratic government', but
`governments are not hesitant about destroying
records — very deliberately — in order to prevent
investigations, as well as to generally weaken
accountability'. Do you think that in this situation
right to information can go to the extent of
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(b) Should media exposure be included in rules for
administrative accountability in India ? State your
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(c) Comment on the role of Civil Society in facilitating
administrative accountability with special reference
to the `Janlokpar issue in India.
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SECTION—B
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(a) `Riggs's classification of societies into fused,
prismatic, and diffracted is built around the concept
of differentiation.' Analyze.
(b) 'The anti-development thesis ... reduces
development to an idea without history, impervious
to change', but 'fails to take account of the fact
that for all its faults, development can be
empowering.' Discuss.
(c) The 'selection model of recruitment rests on the
assumption that the primary needs to be met are
those of the organization.' Examine.
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at best, they will take considerable time to get
started. The cards in this world are stacked against
things happening' [Pressman and Wildaysky].
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(c) 'Those who budget, deal with their overwhelming
burdens by adopting heuristic aids to calculation'
[Wildaysky]. Explain.
6. (a) Do you think that there is an unresolved and often
overlooked tension in Dicey's concept of rule of
law, considering that the other principle of
parliamentary sovereignty in English constitutional
system runs counter to it ?
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(b) Would you agree that the strong Rechsstaat version
of the rule of law found on the Continent never
existed in England because of its particular
history ?
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(c) Why is le droit administratif regarded alongside
the Napoleonic Code as the most notable
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remains elusive in comparative public
administration.
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(b) Given the importance of the issue of sex equality
in development do you think the self-help group
movement adequately addresses absence of women
in the former mainstream development agenda ?
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(c) Would you agree with Bachrach and Baratz that
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8. (a) (i) 'Relations are the building blocks of network
analysis' — In the light of this statement
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in 'network analysis'.
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(ii) Trace the background and development of
PERT and enumerate the steps involved in
the application of PERT.
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