(PYQ Mock Answer: Public administration) - Scope of Public Administration

 Q. "With every major transformation in the applied world of Public Administration, the study of Public Administration has grown in scope and intensity." Discuss the relationship between the evolution of the discipline and profession of Public Administration. (20 Marks)

Answer:

The scope of the discipline and profession of public administration is ever expanding. In a democracy, the expectations of people keeps on going up, to stay in power the political executive tries to satisfy the expectations of the people. Administration happens to be highly technical in natures, since the political executives are professional politicians and amateur administrators they tend to rely more on the bureaucracy to satisfy the aspirations of the people. In this manner the scope of profession of public administration expands. As it is the mandate of any academic discipline to solve the problems of the practitioners, the profession of public administration turned to the discipline of public administration to find solutions to the problems faced by the practitioners at the ground level. Hence, leading to expansion in the scope of public administration. 

The scenario can be better understood with the following examples:

1. Post world war II, the process of decolonisation had started as countries started to gain independence from their colonial masters. The developing and underdeveloped countries tried to apply the Webers bureaucratic theory in administration, but it terribly failed. This was because Weber’s theory was meant for ensuring stability and continuity and was not meant for change, but the developing countries were in need of change and development.  To address this problem, when the practitioners turned to the thinkers, the discipline of development administration emerged within the discipline of Public Administration to solve this problem.
2. In the digital era, with significant developments in the field of IT. Citizens expect the services of the government to be delivered via ICT Channels. To cater to this the discipline of public administration is trying to come up with universal principles to make e-governance a success, while the practitioners are trying to effectively deliver welfare maximisation services through ICT channels by following such theories/models of the discipline. 

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