New Public Management in India : Problems and Perspectives

Contents Preface. 1. Responsive administration India's version of new public management/Arvind K. Sharma. 2. Application of new public management in local government/Ashok Sharma. 3. Applicability and sustainability of new public management/Inderjeet Singh Sodhi. 4. New public management/Noorjahan Bava. 5. New public management public administration in Turmoil/Mohit Bhattacharya. 6. Implementation of new public management problems and prospects/R.K. Sapru and P.M. Bora. 7. Understanding new public management in contemporary times/R.N. Prasad. 8. New public administration vs. New public management/S.P. Verma. 9. Ethical concerns in public administration/Ramesh K. Arora. 10. New public management and the developing societies/Srinibas Pathi. 11. New public management/V. Bhaskara Rao. 12. The trauma of contemporary public administration/Mohit Bhattacharya. 13. Role of government in changing economic scenario in India new public management approach/Neelima Deshmukh. Index. The volume highlights a number of responsible factors making a conventional Public Administration fail in delivering goods and services efficiently effectively and economically. It discusses various reasons for the emergence of the New Public Management (NPM) an alternative model of the centralized governance which emphasizes less better efficient effective responsive accountable governance downsizing of bureaucracy and reorganization of government. The globalization of economy with increasing competition is also an important cause for the growth of this alternative model (NPM) called managerialism market based public administration reinventing government which is based on economics and private management. It also discusses the infeasibility of the implementation of the NPM in India due to the bureaucratic politician self aggrandizement at the expense of public interest besides other significant factors. Policy makers research scholars and students of public administration may find the useful. 218 pp.…