Recasting Public Administration in India Reform, Rhetoric, and Neoliberalism

Kuldeep Mathur, Former Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Kuldeep Mathur is retired Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi. He is former Rector, of JNU and Director of National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA). A recipient of awards for his academic contribution from Indian Council of Social Science Research, University Grants, he has been a member of United Nations Committee of Experts in Public Administration (UNCEPA). He has published on subjects as public policy processes, bureaucracy and decentralization. His latest publications include From Government to Governance A Brief Survey of Indian Experience (National Book Trust, 2008), Public Policy and Politics in India How Institutions Matter (Oxford University Press 2012), Panchayati Raj (Oxford University Press 2013)/

Introduction
1 Administrative System: Early Assessment
2 Nature of Indian Administration
3 Struggle for Political Control
4 The Formal Reform Effort
5 Western Influence: Neoliberal Perspectives for Reforming Administration
6 Shedding Functions as Reform
7 Public-Private Partnership (PPP): A Conceptual Perspective
8 Partnership in Policy Process: Government and Business
9 Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as Administrative Institutions
10 Provisioning of Education and Health in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Mode
11 Emerging Institutions and Challenge of Democratic Accountability
12 Social Mobilization for Public Accountability
13 Reform or Silent Revolution
Annexures
References
Index
About the Author