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Comment: Political Dimensions of Development Administration.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • Planning and Economic Development

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Development administration is the use of the state's administrative machinery to plan and deliver planned socio-economic change. The term is traced to U. L. Goswami's 1955 article on India's development administration and to George F. Gant; Edward W. Weidner gave it conceptual form as an action-oriented, goal-oriented system, and Fred W. Riggs popularised it through…

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  • Why development administration is inherently political
  • Bureaucratic power versus democratic control
  • Commitment, loyalty and the minister–official relationship
  • From bureaucratic to people-centred development
  • Technology and discretion
  • Conclusion
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