Public Administration

Topics (13)

• 1
  Introduction to Public Administration
• 2
  Bureaucracy
• 3
  Public Policy
• 4
  Financial Administration
• 5
  Ethics & Accountability
• 6
  Managing Human Resources

  Spoil vs. merit system, personnel vs. HRM, open vs. closed systems, HRM functions in the public sector.

• 7
  Administrative Law

  Scope, nature, ethics, delegation of authority, administrative tribunals; Pakistani administrative law.

• 8
  Public Management Skills

  Decision making, conflict management, communication, change, diversity, stress, problem solving.

• 9
  The Civil Service of Pakistan

  Historical background, structure, reform history, institutional and cultural context, gender.

• 10
  Organization of Provincial and Local Government

  Provincial secretariat and authorities; post-devolution local governance and city district government.

• 11
  Governance and Administrative Reforms

  Privatization, regulation, deregulation, decentralization, partnerships, BPR and quality assurance in Pakistan.

• 12
  Public Administration Accountability & Control

  Bureaucratic responsiveness, representative bureaucracy, legislative, executive and judicial control; corruption.

• 13
  Public Administration and Development

  Development administration vs. development management; role and challenges in Pakistan.

The reading list straight from FPSC's revised Public Administration syllabus. Build your core preparation around these texts — examiner-favoured references that questions are routinely drawn from.

1. 1

   Public Administration

   Robert Denhardt

2. 2

   Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics and Law

   David Rosenbloom

3. 3

   Public Administration

   Gerald E. Caiden

4. 4

   Public Administration for the Twenty-First Century

   Cooper et al.

5. 5

   Organization Theory for Public Administration

   Michael Harmon and Richard Mayer

6. 6

   Public Administration and Public Affairs

   Nicholas Henry

7. 7

   Classics of Public Administration

   Jay Shafritz

8. 8

   Reinventing Government

   D. Osborne

9. 9

   Evolution of Pakistan's Administration System

   Ralph Braibanti

10. 10

    Human Development in South Asia

    Mahbub-ul-Haq

11. 11

    Bureaucracy

    James Q. Wilson

12. 12

    Bureaucracy in Pakistan

    Charles H. Kennedy

13. 13

    Public Administration and Law

    Julia Beckett

14. 14

    Public Administration: A Comparative Perspective

    Ferrel Heady

15. 15

    Public Administration and Public Management: The Principal-Agent Perspective

    Jan-Erik Lane

16. 16

    Governance: South Asian Perspectives

    Hasnat Abdul Hye

17. 17

    Governance, Economic Policy and Reform in Pakistan

    Abdus Samad

18. 18

    Government and Administration in Pakistan

    Jameelur Rehman Khan

19. 19

    Public Administration with Special Reference to Pakistan

    Sultan Khan

20. 20

    Public Administration in Asia Vol. I & II

    Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

21. 21

    Organizational Theory and the Public Sector

    Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid

22. 22

    Public Administration in South Asia: India, Bangladesh and Pakistan

    Meghna Sabharwal, Evan M. Berman