5.8.1 Bureaucratic Approach: Dr. Shradha Chandra (Asst. Professor Department of Public Administration)
5.8.1 Bureaucratic Approach: Dr. Shradha Chandra (Asst. Professor Department of Public Administration)
5.8.1 Bureaucratic Approach: Dr. Shradha Chandra (Asst. Professor Department of Public Administration)
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Paper -VIII Comparative and Development Administration
There are a number of approaches, models and theories presently characterising the
subject-area of Public Administration. Particularly after Second World War, a
number of approaches have emerged in comparativeadministrative Much of this
effort is based on an adaptation of the developments in comparative
comparative sociology and comparative politics. We will now study different approaches
in a nut-shell.
5.8.4
of the most approaches in Comparative Public Administration isthe ecological
approach which has been stressed considerably by Fred Riggs. This approach examines the
interactions an administrative system and its external environment. Thus the
impact of the political system, economic system, social system and the cultural system, on
structure and behaviour of the administrative as well as the influence of the
administrative system on these environmental structures is highlighted in the ecological
approach.
5.8.6 Approach
A very well-known conceptual approach in Comparative Public Administration is of
'Development Administration' which has been elaborately dealt with in a separate unit.
This approach focuses on certain characteristics of a system,
goal-orientation,change-orientation, progressiveness, innovativeness, participationand
responsiveness.
Besides, the there are a number of other approaches to comparative
administrative analysis. These include "information-energy' model of John Dorsey and
decision-making model of 'Martin Landau. Nevertheless, other models have not been able
to match the comprehensiveness and acceptability of Weber's model, Rigg's
prismatic model and of the construct of Development Administration.
It that the experimentation in model-building in Comparative Public
Administrationis not anymore. However, the enthusiasm for understanding the
varieties of administrative patterns is alive in the scholarship of Public Administration.
That is why, one can hope dimensions of Comparative Public Administration
emerging on the scene'in the'times to
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