Committees and Commissions in India 1976, A Concept's Project (Concepts in Communication Informatics and Librarianship-50)

With the growing complexity of the functions of Government at all levels, the need for the reformulation of theories of public management has become imperative Public administration has emerged as a full-fledged discipline and the administrator is a professional whose role has become more demanding than ever. In a series of brilliantly argued essays the author, an eminent specialist in the field has, in his own words, made a modest attempt to bridge some of the...gaps in Public Administration theory'. Public administration processes may vary depending upon the level of development of each country. What is basic to all of them is the tact that public administration represents the confluence of politocracy, bureaucracy and technocracy. The functions of these sets of administrators, the layman, the generalist and the specialist, must be coordinated to focus on the desired ends The three processes involved are the political, the organizational and the technical. Professor Muttalib has dwelt at length on public administration both as a discipline and as a profession and has discussed new emergent concepts as well as reinterpreted and reformulated other basic ones He rounds up his analysis with the concluding theory on 'The Composite Good of Public Management' that philosophizes on the ultimate goal of public administration in a country that is democratically oriented. A lucid and well-argued thesis on a subject tha is of immense importance and interest to a growing body of students professionals and lay readers to-day.