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Emergence of Development Administration

The document discusses the emergence of development administration in the 1950s following decolonization. As countries gained independence, there were high hopes for political freedom, economic growth, and improved living standards. However, new governments and bureaucracies were expected to deliver on these anticipated benefits of independence. The demands on public administration were large in scale and novel compared to traditional functions. This led to a search for new models of administrative development as the Western models had failed in many of these countries.

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Emergence of Development Administration

The document discusses the emergence of development administration in the 1950s following decolonization. As countries gained independence, there were high hopes for political freedom, economic growth, and improved living standards. However, new governments and bureaucracies were expected to deliver on these anticipated benefits of independence. The demands on public administration were large in scale and novel compared to traditional functions. This led to a search for new models of administrative development as the Western models had failed in many of these countries.

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Emergence of Development administration: The term development administration came into use in the 1950s to represent those aspects

of public administration and those changes in public administration, which are needed to carry out policies, projects, and programs to improve social and economic conditions. During a period of 15 years following the end of World War II, in 1945, colony after colony threw off the imperial yoke. Country after country in Asia, Africa, and Latin America achieved independence and political autonomy. This new status gave promise of freedom and liberty and self-determination in political systems of representative democracy. It gave hope of greater individual freedom and equality of treatment in the society. And independence created hopes of higher national and per capita income, a rapid rise in standards of living, and an increase in individual opportunity. Even in countries which had not been colonies but had been administered by some other form of authoritarian government, this was a generation of rising and insistent expectations pressing for rapid political, social, and economic change. New governments and their bureaucracies, their administrative agencies and processes, were expected to give reality to these anticipated fruits of independence and liberty. These new functions, these demands upon the administration system, were not only enormous in size and weight; they were novel and complex in character. Besides these there were extension of American economic and technical assistance and UN sponsored development schemes in the developing countries through multilateral technical and financial assistance. In fact a scholarly study group known as Comparative Administrative Group in 1960 under the aegis of American Society for Public Administration was set up to study these countries. Lastly there were also search for new model of administrative development model due to the failure of the western model in these countries.

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