Book Reviews : The Citizen and the Administration in a Developing Democracy. By SAMUEL J. ELDERS VELD, V. JAGNNADHAM, and A. P. BARNABAS. (Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1968. Pp. 170. Appendix. $6.00.)
| Author | Daljit Singh |
| DOI | 10.1177/106591296802100317 |
| Published date | 01 September 1968 |
| Date | 01 September 1968 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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overseas
trade.&dquo;
On
balance,
he
notes,
&dquo;overseas
investment
in
the
age
of
imperial-
ism
did
pay off.&dquo;
The
well-known
conclusion
that
individuals
and
corporations
profited
&dquo;but
the
cost
of
colonial
ventures
by
the
state
cannot
be
calculated
at
anything
but
a
loss,&dquo;
is
affirmed.
In
a
retrospective
chapter
on
the
age
of
imperial-
ism
the
author
further
concludes
that
the
charge
&dquo;of
economic
exploitation
is
certainly
in
need
of
revision.
It
may
well
be
completely
reversible.
A
juster
criti-
cism
may
well
turn
out
to
be
that
the
imperial
powers
did
not
exploit
their
posses-
sions
enough,
and
that
the
growing
economic
difficulties
of
former
colonies
are,
in
large
part,
due
to
just
that.&dquo;
The
book
is
written
in
a
clear
and,
for
the
most
part,
rather
interesting
style.
Seven
full-page
maps,
a
critical
bibliography,
and
an
index
add
to
the
book’s
use-
fulness.
It
is
unfortunate
however,
that
the
lack
of
footnotes
and
endnotes
deprives
it
of
a
fuller
serviceability.
Colorado
State
University
JOHN
P.
VLOYANTES
The
Citizen
and
the
Administration
in
a
Developing
Democracy.
By
SAMUEL
J.
ELDERS VELD,
V.
JAGNNADHAM,
and
A.
P.
BARNABAS.
(Glenview,
Illinois:
Scott,
Foresman
and
Company,
1968.
Pp.
170.
Appendix.
$6.00.)
During
the
last
two
decades
or
so,
the
Civil
Administration
in
India
has
gone
through
some
basic
changes.
It
has
become
more
responsive
to
the
public
than
during
the
British
Raj.
But
still
it
seems
to
be
slow
in
bringing
about
social
and
economic
changes
in
response
to
new
demands
and
needs
of
the
public.
As
the
late
Professor
Paul
H.
Appleby
pointed
out
in
his
report
to
the
Govern-
ment
of
India
(Re-Examination
of
India’s
Administrative
System),
the
Indian
administration
has
shown
a
great
deal
of
interest
and
enthusiasm
to
meet
the
chal-
lenge
of
a
new
democratic
society.
The
administrator
has
the
skill,
the
capacity
for
work,
and
a
superior
quality
of
training.
He
has
shown
a
success
&dquo;beyond
any
reasonable
expectation,&dquo;
but
there
are
some
general
faults
remaining
with
the
administration
as
a
whole:
&dquo;... the
Indian
administrative
process
exists
in
the
practice
of
seeking
agreement
on
everything
by
everybody
before
anything
is
done.&dquo;
Besides
this,
it
still
draws
criticism
that
it
is
too
rigid,
formal,
and
snobbish.
There
is
a
lack
of
flow
in
information,
horizontally
and
vertically,
and
a
lack
of
com-
munication
between
the
administration
and
the
public.
To
provide
the
answer
to
this
particular
problem
of
citizen-administrator
relationship,
Professor
Eldersveld
of
the
University
of
Michigan
and
Professors
Jaganndham
and
Barnabas
of
the
Indian
Institute
of
Public
Administration
com-
pleted
an
empirical
study
of
the
Delhi
State
in
1965,
under
the
auspices
of
the
Indian
Institute
of
Public
Administration,
New
Delhi.
This
study
is
very
similar
to
that
of
Professor
Morris
Jaowitz’s
empirical
study
of
Detroit,
Michigan,
in
1954,
later
published
by
the
University
of
Michigan
in
1958:
Public
Administration
and
the
Public:
Perspectives
Toward
Government
in
a
Metropolitan
Community.
In
general,
two
types
of
questions
were
asked
in
the
study
under
review,
while
keeping
in
mind
the
background
of
relationship
between
the
bureaucrat
and
the
citizen.
(1)
What
evidence
is
there
that
citizens
and
officials
perceive,
understand,
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