Development Administration

By Dr. Khalid Wasim Hassan | Central University of Kashmir

Learners enrolled: 222

The MOOC on Development Administration is for learners at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Prospective learners of this course are throughout India and across the globe. The course shall provide knowledge of the nature and evolution of the discipline of Development Administration and various theoretical debates. The 5-credit course on “Development Administration” promises to provide interdisciplinary training that will allow learners to understand the hierarchal and vertical relationships maintained by the government institutions with the society for the holistic development of society. The course is balanced through a combination of theoretical debates and empirical cases where learners will acquire knowledge of the emergence of the discipline of development administration, contributions of theoreticians, debates on development and environment, the role of non-state actors in development administration and a relationship between public and private sectors. The major focus of the course is to bring an understanding among the learners about the working of development administration in the Indian context.

The MOOCs shall be divided into thirteen units, comprising fifty-two comprehensive lectures covering all the Development Administration. This MOOCs shall be inclusive of the below-mentioned broader themes:

• Theoretical Perspectives on Development Administration

• Evolution and growth of the Discipline of Development Administration

• Relationship between Development Administration to environment,

• Colonialism and Development Administration

• Globalization and Development Administration

• Gender and Development

• Bureaucracy and Development

• Development and Conflict

• Development Administration in India

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Political Science
Credit Points :	5
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	05 Jan 2026
End Date :	30 Apr 2026
Enrollment Ends :	28 Feb 2026
Exam Date :
Translation Languages :	English
NCrF Level	5.0

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Course layout

WEEK- I

1. Development Administration: concept, nature, scope and objectives

2. Discipline of Development Administration - Emergence

3. Features of Development Administration Research

4. Public Administration and Development Administration in the Universities

WEEK- II

5. Ralph Braibanti

6. Edward Weidner

7. Fred W. Riggs

8. Dwight Waldo

WEEK-III

9. Development: Theoretical Debates

10. Development and its Dimensions

11. Approaches to Development

12. Development and Modernization

WEEK-IV

13. Colonialism and Development

14. Colonial Legacy of Development Administration

15. Effects of Colonial Administration on State formation in post-colonial states

16. Colonial state and role of Bureaucracy

WEEK-V

17. Development and Environment

18. Ecology of Development Administration

19. Sustainable Development

20. Anti-Development

WEEK-VI

21. Globalization and its various dimensions

22. Globalization and Development Administration

23. Development Administration in Global North: Western Experience

24. Development Administration in Global South: Western Experience

WEEK-VII

25. Emergence of Non-State Actors in Development Administration

26. Non-State Actor’s Engagement in Development

27. Non-State Actors and Global Governance

28. Non-Governmental Organizations and Development Administration

WEEK-VIII

29. Gender and Development: a Debate

30. Gender Parity and Development

31. Women and Development Administration

32. Gendered Development Administration: a critique

WEEK-IX

33. Role of Bureaucracy in Development

34. Bureaucracy and Development Administration

35. Designing Bureaucracy for Development

36. Bureaucracy, its reforms and Development

WEEK-X

37. Privatization and Liberalization in Development

38. Public-Private Partnership

39. Corporate Social Responsibility

40. Critique of Public-Private Partnership

WEEK-XI

41. Inclusive Development

42. Social Development Goals

43. Human Development Indicators

44. Social Audit and Development

WEEK-XII

45. Development and inter-community conflicts

46. Violent Conflicts against State. Development

47. Uneven Development and Violent conflicts

48. Development as Conflict Resolution

WEEK-XIII

49. Nature of Public Administration in India

50. Development Administration in India

51. Challenges of Development Administration in India

52. Future prospectus of Development Administration in India

Books and references

Bayat, M.S. and Meyer, I.H. 1994. Public Administration. Concepts, theory and practice. Southern Books Publishers, Halfway House.

Botes, P.S. 1973. The Concept Administration: The Public Servant. Southern Book, Halfway House.

Henry, N. 1975. Public Administration and Public Affairs. Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

Hope, K.R., 1984. The dynamics of development and development administration

Nigro, L.; Nigro, F. and Kellough, J. E. 2007. The New Public Personnel Administration.

Thomson Wadsworth, Belmont.

Phillips, Claude S. 1989. "Political versus Administration Development." Administration & Society 20, no. 4, 423–45.

Rabin, J.; Hildreth, W.B. and Miller, G. J. (eds). 2007. Handbook of Public Administration. Third Edition. Taylor and Francis Group, New York.

Riggs, F.W. and MacKean, D.D., 1964. Administration in developing countries: The theory of prismatic society (p. 227). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Sarkar, Kanak Chandra. 1996. "Fall of Development Administration." Indian Journal of Public Administration 42, no. 2, 202–5.

Instructor bio

Dr. Khalid Wasim Hassan

Central University of Kashmir

Dr. Khalid Wasim Hassan is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Governance, which is housed in the School of Social Sciences of the Central University of Kashmir, India. Presently he is the coordinator for the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at CUK. Previously, he has also taught at the P.G Department of Political Science of St. Joseph College, Bangalore and the School of Undergraduate Studies of Ambedkar University Delhi. His research focuses on political violence, gender & public spaces and intersectionality in South Asia. Dr. Hassan visited South Asian Institute, SOAS on Charles Wallace Fellowship in 2017, Sidney Sussex College of the University of Cambridge in 2018 and Birkbeck University (London) in 2020 on a visiting fellowship respectively. He teaches courses on Political Theory, Peace and Conflict Studies and South Asian Politics at the postgraduate level.

Course certificate

1. End-Term Examination:

Weightage: 70% of the final result

Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

2. Internal Assessment:

Weightage: 30% of the final result

Minimum Passing Criteria: 40%

Calculation of IA Marks:

Out of all graded weekly Assessments/Assignments, the top 50% of Assignments shall be considered for the calculation of the final Internal Assessment marks.

All students who obtain 40% marks in the internal Assessment and 40% marks in the end-term proctored exam separately will be eligible for the SWAYAM Credit Certificate.

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