Public Administration: Steel Or Plastic Frame

Public Administrative system in India continuously spread and expanded its scope carrying its steel frame for about 40 years after independence. Steel is symbolic of hardness of character, strength, firmness and malleability. The steel frame is now tempered and transformed in to plastic. The system for the last 20 years is getting molded to the needs of global enviornmental changes and undergoing certain plastic surgery.The volume contains the research papers of the author contributed to various seminars, conferences and journals. The papers are varied on different aspects of the discipline and profession of public administration in India. The author attempted to perceive the changing nature of the state and its administration in its theory and practice. The book analyzed certain emerging issues of LPG democracy, good governance, democratic decentralization, and forecasts the 21st century's public administration. About The Author:- Dr. V. Bhaskara rao (b. 1939) was formely Professor of Public Administration at Kakatiya University, Warangal, A.P. He served the university in every capacity as academician and administrator. He guided six M.Phill. And 11 Ph.Ds. Author and editor of 35 books in English and Telugu and published about 80 research papers. He participated in about 100 national and international seminars and conferences. He organized maby national seminars and directed research projects of ICSSR and UGC. He is the recipient of many awards including State Teachers Award of Government of Andhra Pradesh in 1992. He is closely associated with the Indian Public Administration Association and the founder Secretary-Cum-Treasurer of new Public Administration Sociaty of India since its inception in 1994. He was also associated in many ways with the Indion Institute of Public Administration at national and local level. He is the biographer of Charlie Chaplin and translated some works of Noam Chomsky Malcom Godwin and others. at present he uis the director MBA programme and principal Chautanya Post Graduate College Warangal and Hon. Director Centre of Peoples Empowerment and Good Governance Warangal, He visitd U.S.A.and bermuda. His earlier books include "Employer-Employee Relatiions" (Concept, 1978), Public Administration in India (Ajanta, (1989), Agrarian and Insdustrial Relations in Hyderabad State, (Associated 1985), Civil Servive Arbitration in India, (Khama, 1994) and edited "General Elections in India" (IGNOU, 2005) Co-editor of: Parliamentary Demecracy in India "(Mittal , 1987)", Development Strategies in India (Khama 1993) Nehru and Administratioin (Ajanta, 1989) Public Administration; 'Quest for Identity' (Vikas, 1996) 'Ethics in Business' (Prajahita, 2005) and a number of Telugu books. Contents:- Foreword. • Preface. • Administrative Persinnel in India. •Arbitration in Indian Public Service. •Intellectuals' Perception and Attitudes Towards a Public Policy : A Study of Six Point Formula in Andhra Pradesh. •Civil Service Staff Relations in Government of India. • Paradox of Public Administratioin on India: Emerging Issues. • Ethics in Indian Public Services : A Note. • The Andhra Pradesh Government Employees' Strick : An Experiment in Civil Service Unionism. • Strikes by State Government Employees : An All-India Problem. • Panchayati Raj in India : Local Governance in Action. • The Status of Public Administration Education in India. • Strategies of successful Administrative Reforms. • India in Search of Good Governance. • Human Development and Governance : Challenges in India. • Democracy and Public Administration in India. • Re-engineering for Good Governance. • The Second Stroke by Central Government Employees : Some Demands. • Police Strikes in India. • Discipline in Publuc Service. • Trade Unionism among Public Sector Bank Employees : A Survey. • Role of Bank Employees' Unions in Development. • The Second Strike by Central Government Employees: Some Issues. • Index. • The Title 'Public Administration: Steel Or Plastic Frame written/authored/edited by V. Bhaskara Rao', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788178356174 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 300 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Public Administration. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-