Subject(s): Public Administration;Decentralization -- Administrative reform -- Participation -- public administration in century of interdependence, government act, assessing and improving public administration -- Government functions and organization : Genesis and roles of government, roots of political fundamentals in different cultures, legitimacy and nature of elites, conceptual justification for government intervention, practical framework of facilitate decisions of government intervention -- Setting and enforcing government regulations, evolution of government regulations, federal regulation in US, general directions of improvement -- policy making machinery and organization of central government : Central mechanisms to support policy making, organizational structure of central government, coordination and management issues in central government , situation in US -- Decentralization and organizational architecture of subnational government in US -- Managing government activity -- Managing money- preparing, implementing and monitoring the budget: roles and objective of public expenditure management, budget systems, annuality and comprehensiveness, budget preparation and execution, management controls audit and evaluation -- Managing the people 1 - employment and wage policy : importance of good civil service, government employment policy, wage and incentive policy -- Managing the people 2 - Personnel administration and development : Government personnel management, investing in government personnel development -- Managing purchase and contracts -public procurement : Genesis, objectives and scope of public procurement, legal and regulatory framework for procurement, management of public procurement, issues in public procurement, contract management and monitoring, special issues of military procurement -- Performance, monitoring and evaluation : Measuring and using performance indicators, personnel performance appraisal, performance reforms -- Governance and public management -- Accountability: Role of exit and voice in public accountability, accountability institutions -- participation and social capital : Civil society and nongovernmental organizations -- Transparency- information , media and e-governance : transparency in public management, media, information technology, public administration -- Rule of law- Assuring public integrity and preventing corruption : Ethics and integrity in public sector, managing for integrity in changing public sector -- Administrative reform- experience and prospects -- Public administration reform in developed countries : cheaper government, better government, scope of reforms -- Way forward - progress, not fashion : never ending struggle against fashion, managing constructive administrative change