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Paper 2 pattern

UGC NET Paper 2 — Public Administration

  • 100 questions
  • 200 marks
  • 120 minutes
  • +2 per right answer
  • no negative marking
  • Unit I — Introduction to Public Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit II — Administrative Thought10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit III — Indian Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit IV — State & Local Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit V — Comparative and Development Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit VI — Economic and Financial Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit VII — Social Welfare Administration10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit VIII — Public Policy10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit IX — Governance and Good Governance10 Qs · 20 marks
  • Unit X — Research Methodology10 Qs · 20 marks

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  • Chapters in English and Hindi23 chapters on the official syllabus, each ending in a quiz that explains every answer.
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From the chapter: Introduction to Public Administration: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance; Evolution of the Discipline; the Politics–Administration Dichotomy; Globalization; and the Shift from Government to Governance

Who defined politics as "the expression of the will of the state" and administration as "the execution of that will"?

Show the answer and why

Answer: C.

Goodnow's Politics and Administration (1900) gave Wilson's dichotomy its theoretical form. White wrote the first textbook (1926), Willoughby the Principles (1927), and Appleby was the dichotomy's leading critic.

Syllabus

UGC NET Public Administration syllabus, unit by unit

Open a unit to see its chapters. The course’s free chapter is Paper 1’s first.

Unit I — Introduction to Public Administration3 chapters
  1. Introduction to Public Administration: Meaning, Nature, Scope and Significance; Evolution of the Discipline; the Politics–Administration Dichotomy; Globalization; and the Shift from Government to Governance
  2. Principles of Organization: Division of Work, Hierarchy, Coordination, Unity of Command, Span of Control, Authority and Delegation, Line and Staff, Leadership, Decision-making and Communication
  3. Personnel Administration: Meaning, Nature and Scope; Classification, Recruitment, Training, Promotion, Compensation and Discipline; Neutrality, Anonymity and Commitment; Associations and Unionism
Unit II — Administrative Thought3 chapters
  1. Administrative Thought I: the Oriental Approach of Kautilya and the Classical School — Taylor, Fayol, Weber, Gulick and Urwick
  2. Administrative Thought II: Human Relations (Mayo, Follett), Behaviouralism (Barnard, Simon), Motivation (Maslow, Herzberg, McGregor) and Organizational Humanism (Argyris, Likert)
  3. Administrative Thought III: Waldo, Heady, Golembiewski and Drucker; the Minnowbrook Perspective, the New Public Service and Post-Modernism
Unit III — Indian Administration3 chapters
  1. Indian Administration I: Evolution from the Ancient, Mughal and British Periods; the Constitutional Framework; the Union Executive — President, Prime Minister, Cabinet Committees, Secretariats and the PMO; the Election Commission; Union–State Relations
  2. Indian Administration II: Legislative, Executive and Judicial Accountability; Lokpal, Lokayukta, the Central Vigilance Commission and Regulatory Authorities; Politician–Civil Servant Relations, the Generalist–Specialist Debate and Combating Corruption; the Civil Services and their Reform
  3. Indian Administration III: Planning — the Planning Commission, NDC, NITI Aayog and State Planning Boards; the Judiciary — Independence, Judicial Review, PIL and Reform; Police Administration and Reform; E-Governance Initiatives
Unit IV — State & Local Administration2 chapters
  1. State and District Administration: the Governor, Chief Minister and Council of Ministers; the Chief Secretary, State Secretariat, Directorates and Commissionerates; the District Collector; Autonomous District Councils and the DRDA; the Evolution of Local Governance
  2. Local Governance: the 73rd and 74th Amendments; State Election and Finance Commissions and District Planning Committees; Rural Governance, PRI Finance and Personnel, and MGNREGA; Urbanisation, Municipal and Metropolitan Governance, Urban Finance and Reforms
Unit V — Comparative and Development Administration2 chapters
  1. Comparative Public Administration: Concept, Scope and Significance; Administration and its Environment; Institutional, Behavioural, Structural-Functional, Ecological and Systems Approaches; Riggs's Typology and the Prismatic-Sala Model; Problems of Comparative Research; the UK, USA, France and Japan
  2. Development Administration: Development and Modernization; Sustainable Development, Anti-Development and the SDGs; Concept, Features and Ecology of Development Administration; Riggs, Waldo and Weidner; Bureaucracy, Globalization, Non-State Actors, PPPs, CSR, Human Development Indicators and Social Audit
Unit VI — Economic and Financial Administration2 chapters
  1. Economic Administration: from the Mixed Economy to LPG and the New Economic Policy; Industrial Policy since Independence; Public Enterprises — Concept, Growth, Forms, Management, Accountability and Autonomy; Disinvestment Policy
  2. Financial Administration: Nature and Scope; the Budget and the Budgetary Process; PPBS, Performance, Zero-Based and Gender Budgets; the FRBM Act and Sunset Legislation; Fiscal Federalism and the Finance Commission; Legislative and Executive Control, Parliamentary Committees and the CAG; Taxation
Unit VII — Social Welfare Administration2 chapters
  1. Social Welfare Administration I: Social Welfare, Social Justice and Social Change; Equity and Inclusiveness; Affirmative Action and Reservations; the Institutional Arrangement for Welfare and Justice Administration; NGOs, Civil Society and Voluntary Agencies
  2. Social Welfare Administration II: Policies, Programmes and Institutions for SCs, STs, OBCs, Women, Children, the Aged, Persons with Disabilities and Minorities; the National Commissions; Disaster Management — Types, Institutions and the Role of State and Non-State Actors
Unit VIII — Public Policy2 chapters
  1. Public Policy I: Nature, Scope and Importance; the Evolution of Public Policy and the Policy Sciences; Process, Positivist, Phenomenological, Participatory and Normative Approaches; the Models of Lasswell, Lindblom and Dror
  2. Public Policy II: Institutions of Policy-Making; Types of Policy Analysis; Implementation, Outcomes and Evaluation; Socio-Economic, Political, Institutional and Cultural Constraints; Media, Public Opinion, Civil Society and Pressure Groups
Unit IX — Governance and Good Governance2 chapters
  1. Governance and Good Governance I: Kautilya, Plato and Aristotle; Elements and Forms of Good Governance; the World Bank and UNDP; State, Market and Civil Society; Public Choice, New Public Management, Public Value and Governance as Theory; Rule of Law, Administrative Law, Delegated Legislation, Administrative Adjudication and the Ethical Foundations of Governance
  2. Governance and Good Governance II: Networked and Collaborative Governance; Business Process Re-engineering; E-Government, E-Governance, E-Readiness and the Digital Divide; Accountability, Openness and Transparency; Gender and Governance; Civil Society, Citizen Participation, the RTI Act, Information Commissions and Citizen's Charters
Unit X — Research Methodology2 chapters
  1. Research Methodology I: Social Science Research; Methodology and Method; Facts and Values; Research and Theory-Building; the Scientific Method and Objectivity; Types of Research; the Research Problem; Hypotheses, Null Hypotheses and their Validation
  2. Research Methodology II: Research Design; Primary and Secondary Data — Observation, Questionnaire, Interview, Library and Internet; Sampling and Sampling Techniques; Scales of Measurement; Analysis of Data and SPSS; Citation Patterns, Research Ethics, Bibliography and Report Writing

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What does the UGC NET Public Administration course cost?

The first chapter of the UGC NET course is free. All 23 chapters of this subject, in English and Hindi, unlock with the UGC NET plan — ₹29 a month, less than ₹1 a day, cancel anytime — with scored practice, the Paper-2 mock test and spaced revision. Premium adds the AI mentor.

Does it cover the whole Public Administration syllabus?

All 10 units of the NTA syllabus (subject code 14) are written, in 23 chapters, from the official document unit by unit.

What is the UGC NET Paper 2 exam pattern for Public Administration?

100 questions for 200 marks, with no negative marking. Paper 1 and Paper 2 are taken in one sitting of three hours; the mock test here rehearses Paper 2 in 120 minutes.

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