CSS Public Administration Past Paper 2009
PART-2(Subjective) 80 Marks
Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. (20×4)
PART-II
Q.2. Write a short Essay on the intellectual history of Public Administration.
Q.3. Bureaucracy and Democracy are antithetical. Bureaucracy is hierarchical, elitist, specializing and informed while democracy is communal, pluralist, generalizing and ill informed. Keeping in mind the quantum of expectations in Pakistan and the reality of the civic culture, discuss the above statement.
Q.4. Public Administration is a broad ranging and amorphous mix of theory and practice. The purpose of Public Administration is to frame a superior understanding of government and its relationship with the society it governs, as well as to promote Public Policies responsive to social needs. Public Administration also institutes managerial practices attuned to effectiveness, efficiencies and a deeper human requisite of the citizenry. Discuss.
Q.5. How and why governments implement public programmes by hiring the private sector to do work for them? In writing your answer, also discuss the concepts of privatization and public-private partnership.
Q.6. Domestic Public policy is implemented not merely by government but by governments. The administration of a single Public Policy often involves a medley of funding sources and public administrators interacting through all the three levels of governments. Please comment on the strength of inter-government relations i.e.: financial, legal, political and administrative relationships that exist among the various government units of aid government in Pakistan.
Q.7. The judicial remedies and accountability for the citizens of the country against the abuse of power have become prevalent in modern times. What are those remedies? Elaborate.
Q.8. Explain the system of Project Planning in the Government of Pakistan and how it extends to the provinces and local governments.