UGC NET Public Administration — Paper 2, subject code 14

All ten units are written, in 23 chapters: three each for Unit I, Introduction to Public Administration (the discipline, dichotomy and governance shift; principles of organization; personnel administration), Unit II, Administrative Thought (Kautilya and the classical school; human relations, behaviouralism, motivation and organizational humanism; Waldo, Heady, Golembiewski, Drucker, Minnowbrook, the New Public Service and post-modernism), and Unit III, Indian Administration, the densest unit (evolution, the constitutional framework and the Union executive; accountability, grievance redressal and the civil services; planning, the judiciary, police and e-governance); and two for every other unit. Each unit opens with an inline heading phrase set off by a colon, and all ten have one, so those phrases are recorded as the unit titles — the same form as History's Unit X, which is titled inline. Two caveats: Unit I's phrase heads only its first block, and the unit also carries the "Principles of Organization" and "Meaning, Nature and Scope of Personnel Administration" blocks; and Unit VII also carries a "Disaster Management" block that its heading does not name. This is the most heavily overlapped subject written here so far, and the overlap was scoped unit by unit: Units I, II, VIII and IX touch NET Political Science's public-administration, organisation, governance and public-policy chapters, whose institutions and federalism chapters also touch Unit III; Unit I's personnel block and Unit II's classical and motivation theorists touch NET Management's principles, organisational-behaviour and human-resource chapters; Unit VI touches NET Economics's public finance, FRBM and Finance Commission material; Unit II's Weber touches NET Sociology; Unit X touches NET Paper-1's research unit and the research-methods chapters of NET Sociology and NET Psychology; and Units III, IV, VI, VII and IX touch the shared polity and governance course (Parliament, the executive, the states, the judiciary, panchayats, Centre–State relations, constitutional bodies, governance and welfare). Each was checked against those chapters and written independently from this document's own framing and from administrative theory — Riggs's fused–prismatic–diffracted typology and the sala model, Simon's proverbs of administration and bounded rationality, the Lindblom–Dror debate between incrementalism and the normative-optimum model, the generalist–specialist debate, and an administrative rather than constitutional-law reading of the Union executive and the district. Nothing is adapted or reworded; Units V and X, and the theory in Units I, II and VIII, are the most original to this subject. The official document carries misprints, which are quoted as printed wherever this platform quotes it and taught in their correct form: "MGNAREGA" as MGNREGA, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005; "Minnobrook" as Minnowbrook, the conferences of 1968, 1988 and 2008; "Edward Widener" as Edward W. Weidner, who gave development administration its classic definition; "Fredrick Herzberg" as Frederick Herzberg; "Lok Pal" as the Lokpal of the 2013 Act; and "National Information Commission" as the Central Information Commission of the RTI Act. Institutional facts carry their dates: NITI Aayog replaced the Planning Commission on 1 January 2015, and the National Development Council, never formally abolished, has not met since December 2012; the first Lokpal was appointed in 2019; the RTI Act of 2005 was amended in 2019; the 73rd and 74th Amendments date from 1992 and came into force in 1993; the FRBM Act from 2003; the Disaster Management Act of 2005 was amended in 2025; AMRUT and the Smart Cities Mission from 2015; and the Sixteenth Finance Commission, chaired by Arvind Panagariya, covers 2026–31.