PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

5. Public Administration Q&A

61. Foucault's concepts of "power" and "governmentality" have been influential in breaking away
from the modernist notion of power as an institutional fix, instead it is something that permeates
all spheres of life. Elaborate.
62. Bureaucracy is a "myth of meritocracy" and "benevolence". Evaluate with respect to Peter's
Principle and Methodological Individualism.

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63. Droit Administratif does not have a separate code for itself like Civil Code. Elaborate.

OR
64. Studies on citizen-administration relations have revealed various reasons for general mistrust
and lack of faith of public administration. Use the example of RTI to cite some issues with
regard to aforesaid.
65. Ironically, whereas economics often use principal-agent models to explore potential control
problems, it appears that political scientists often refer to such models to exercise them and the
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specter of bureaucratic influence.

66. All the discourse of ethics in public life may end up in another justification for governmental
failure.
67. Effective political culture may usher in a thoroughbred administrative culture, which may have
far reaching consequences for ensuring and predicting ethical conduct from civil servants..with
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respect to the above, make a case for strengthening media and civil society in holding public
authorities directly accountable to the citizens.
68. Use Riggs Model to evaluate the causes and consequences of "Bazaar-Canteen" type Economic
system.
69. "Present day Riggs" is the harshest critic of "Former Riggs". Explain the statement in the context
of "Bilinear path Prismatic" Model.
70. Ferrel Heady's comparison of variations in political regimes in different countries is less generic
and more social. Comment.
71. Structural-Functional approach is a better tool to evaluate variations within the societies.
Comment.
72. "Dror's optional model is a fusion of the economically rational model with the extra rational
model". Explain.
73. "We need to develop policy sciences for the democracy". (Lasswell). Comment.
74. "The increment list paradigm posits a conservative tendency in public policy making". Critically
examine.
75. "Public Policies are reflections of Political will"

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61. Foucault's concepts of "power" and "governmentality" have been influential in breaking away
from the modernist notion of power as an institutional fix, instead it is something that permeates
all spheres of life. Elaborate.

E
OR
SC
GS

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62. Bureaucracy is a "myth of meritocracy" and "benevolence". Evaluate with respect to Peter's
Principle and Methodological Individualism.

E
OR
SC
GS

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63. Droit Administratif does not have a separate code for itself like Civil Code. Elaborate.

E
OR
SC
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64. Studies on citizen-administration relations have revealed various reasons for general mistrust
and lack of faith of public administration. Use the example of RTI to cite some issues with
regard to aforesaid.

E
OR
SC
GS

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65. Ironically, whereas economics often use principal-agent models to explore potential control
problems, it appears that political scientists often refer to such models to exercise them and the
specter of bureaucratic influence.

E
OR
SC
GS

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66. All the discourse of ethics in public life may end up in another justification for governmental
failure.

E
OR
SC
GS

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67. Effective political culture may usher in a thoroughbred administrative culture, which may have
far reaching consequences for ensuring and predicting ethical conduct from civil servants..with
respect to the above, make a case for strengthening media and civil society in holding public
authorities directly accountable to the citizens.

E
OR
SC
GS

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68. Use Riggs Model to evaluate the causes and consequences of "Bazaar-Canteen" type Economic
system.

E
OR
SC
GS

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69. "Present day Riggs" is the harshest critic of "Former Riggs". Explain the statement in the context
of "Bilinear path Prismatic" Model.

E
OR
SC
GS

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70. Ferrel Heady's comparison of variations in political regimes in different countries is less generic
and more social. Comment.

E
OR
SC
GS

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71. Structural-Functional approach is a better tool to evaluate variations within the societies.
Comment.

E
OR
SC
GS

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72. "Dror's optional model is a fusion of the economically rational model with the extra rational
model". Explain.

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SC
GS

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73. "We need to develop policy sciences for the democracy". (Lasswell). Comment.

E
OR
SC
GS

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74. "The increment list paradigm posits a conservative tendency in public policy making". Critically
examine.

E
OR
SC
GS

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75. "Public Policies are reflections of Political will"

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