Netaji Subhas Open University West Bengal WBNSOU : Model Question Paper

Name of the Organisation : Netaji Subhas Open University West Bengal (wbnsou.ac.in)
Type of Announcement : Model Question Paper

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English Version :
1. Answer any two of the following questions :18×2=36
(a) Give a discription of the contending approaches to Public Administration.
(b) After discussing the relationship between state and society show how Public Administration becomes relevant to this discussion.
(c) Bhrow light on the basic values of the social democratic welfare state.
(d) Discuss the similarities and differences between the Chinese and Western administrative system in the context of the permanent and changing features of Chinese Administration.

2. Answer any three of the following questions : 12×3=36
(a) Discuss the relationship of Public Administration with the discipline of Management.
(b) Comment on the Weberian conceptualization of the Liberal State.
(c) What has been the impact of the managerialist approach on the British administrative system ?
(d) Bring out the features of socialist administration.
(e) Explain the disadvantages of democracy. Do you think that democracy is a failure in India ?
(f) What is Lenin’s idea of socialist administration ?

3. Answer any four of the following questions : 7×4=28
(a) What are the merits of the ecological approach to Public Administration ?
(b) What are the characteristics of bureaucracy according to Weber ?
(c) What are the steps in the transition from the absolutist to the liberal state ?
(d) Is republicanism sufficient for democracy ?
(e) In what sense is New Public Management related with market fundamentalism ?
(f) What are the recent changes in Chinese Administration?
(g) Write about ‘specialization’ and ‘professionalism’ in Chinese Administration.
(h) What is the meaning of ‘participatory management’?

English Version :
Group – A
Answer any two questions : 18×2=36
1. Examine the basic features of Rawl’s theory of Justice.
How far are these relevant in the changing perspectives of governance?
2. Comment on the views of Habermas on ‘Public Sphere’.
3. What are the major components of New Public Management? Make a critical appraisal of the New Public Management approach in administration.
4. Explain, with suitable illustrations, how the Right to Information ensures transparency in administrative system.

Group – B
Answer any three questions : 12×3=36
5. Analyse the importance of ethics in public administration.
6. What is ‘development administration’? Explain the Riggsian theory of development administration.
7. What do you mean by entreprenurial government? Examine the major principles and forms of entrepreneurial government.
8. Discuss, with special reference to India, the various institutional devices available for the redressal of citizens’ grievances.
9. What is ‘good governance’? Discuss the scope for State-Society synergy for promotion of good governance in India.
10. Analyse the attempts for reforms towards development of responsive administrative system in India.

Group – C
Attempt any four questions : 7×4=28
11. How does John Rawls characterise a ‘well-order’ society?
12. Analyse the economic context of development for the success of development administration.
13. Explain briefly Marx’s views on bureaucracy.
14. Discuss, in brief, how does ‘civic culture’ differ from ‘machine based culture’.
15. Give a brief outline of the emergence of New Public Administration movement.
16. Explain the concept of ‘citizens’ charter’.

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