Subject(s): Administration Dictionary -- Bureaucratic Administration -- Leadership planning -- Public and local bodies -- citizen participation -- Politics- administration dichotomy, bureaucratic accountability, holding administration accountable, citizen control, power- subject and structure, bureaucracy as instrument of positive government - aspects of control, dilemmas of public accountability, impressions and evidence, towards a new public administration, accountability and citizen participation -- Neighborhood council movement in West - some pointers : Decentralist trends in western democracies, going local, elected authority, training integral to success of going local -- Aspects of Indian experience : Indian studies on bureaucracy and development, role of leadership in planning and execution of schemes of rural development, district bureaucracy interaction with local political system, public and local bodies, dominant features of citizen perception, Indian bureaucracy- forces of change, implementation gap, responsive administration - aspects of Indian experience, relationship between panchayats and development personnel