Administration & Public Policy: Concepts and Theories

Module 01: Meaning, Nature and Scope of Public Administration

Module 02: Evolution of Public Administration

Module 03: Classical Theory

Module 04: Scientific Management

Module 05: Human Relation Theory

Module 06: Rational Decision-Making

Module 07: Politics and Administration

Module 08: Methods & Approaches of Public Administration Part 1

Module 09: Methods & Approaches of Public Administration Part 2

Module 10: Leadership

Module 11: Decision Making

Module 12: Communication

Module 13: Accountability

Module 14: Bureaucracy Part-1

Module 15: Bureaucracy Part-2

Module 16: Budgeting

Module 17: Legislative Control Over Administration  

Module 18: Judicial Control over Administration

Module 19: Globalisation & Liberalisation- I

Module 20: Globalisation & Liberalisation- II

Module 21: New Public Administration Part 1

Module 22: New Public Administration Part 2

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Esita Sur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of Political Science at the Scottish Church College, Kolkata. She has submitted her Ph.D. in ‘Evolving Activism Among Muslim Women in Mumbai Since The 1980s’ under Dr. Bonita Aleaz from the Department of Political Science, University of Calcutta. Her research interest includes Gender Studies, Minority Community, Women and Citizenship Rights, Islam in India, Feminism and Women’s Movement, Muslim Women’s Activism in India, Religion and Women.  She has several publications  to her credit the most recent ones  being an article on ‘The Marginal Locations of Muslim Women on Various Sites in India’ is published in an edited book Marginalities in India: Themes and Perspectives by Asmita Bhattacharya and Sudeep Basu from Springer Nature, Singapore in 2018 AND an article on ‘Triple Talaq Bill in India: Muslim Women as Political Subjects or Victims?’ is published in Space and Culture in India, England ACCB Publishing (volume 5, number 3) in 2018. Esita has also attended several workshops and seminars on her areas of interests and have also presented papers in a few of them. She has recently presented a paper on ‘Triple Talaq and Muslim Women in India’ in the International Conference on  Gender and Sexuality in Asia at Monash University, Malaysia held from 12th November to 14th November 2018.