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PARADIGM SHIFT IN ADMINSTRATION. DR. SOMA GHOSH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPTT. OF POLITICAL SCIENCE SAROJINI NAIDU COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Email- sssrcg2000@yahoo.co.in. context.
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PARADIGM SHIFT IN ADMINSTRATION DR. SOMA GHOSH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPTT. OF POLITICAL SCIENCE SAROJINI NAIDU COLLEGE FOR WOMEN Email- sssrcg2000@yahoo.co.in
context • In the 20th century the “Administrative State” started acting as the accelerator for economic & social changes. • Public Administration was to act in a way to embrace daily life of the individual as well as the community.
Reasons for the Amplification of State Function • Growth of industrialization and urbanization • A shift from individualism to social welfarism
● Two World wars • ●Resulting emergence of international institutions - the World Bank, the IMF advancing the elite ideology of neo-liberal economics. • ●Increase in population
Transformation in the functions of public administration • Emergence of ‘Great Society’ • Emergence of ‘Big Government’ in almost all industrialized & advanced nations.
Advent of Thatcherite Ideology of New Managerialism in 1980s • Marketization of the state's governing and administrative practices • Transformation of public service individuals into 'entrepreneurial subjects'
The state became the enthusiastic adopter of a 'Public Choice' approach to the public sector. • The adaptation of the machinery of state to the mission of 'entrepreneurial governance'.
Shifting the balance of incentives from input to output • Contracting out of services
Changing Role of Administration • Civil servants to abandon the principles of political impartiality‘ • A more 'agency-driven' style of functioning • Creation of a climate favourable to 'entrepreneurialism'.
Aims of Managerialism • Practising 'entrepreneurial subjects‘ • Fostering certain 'capacities‘ • ‘Culture-change‘ fitted to the concept of 'free-market‘ • Consumer-focused 'governance'
'Entrepreneurial governance’ promoting competition between service providers • Favouring the shift from bureaucracy to 'community’ • Focus not on inputs but on outcomes (delivery) redefining clients as consumers
Decentralisation of authority through 'participatory management' • Preferring market mechanisms to administrative ones
'To govern better the state is to govern less but more "entrepreneurially"'
District Administration To Act Positively In Capacity Building • Information, experience and knowledge sharing • Clarification of concepts • Promotion of dialogue
Expected Role Of The District Administrators The administrators have to be • a moral leader, mediator and coordinator than mere issuer of orders • tactician as they have to take up heavy political pressure • to act as an agent of change.
E-learning • Dear students For academic queries contact through email given below: sssrcg2000@yahoo.co.in DR. SOMA GHOSH