Vision and Mission

The study of Public Administration and Public Policy has gained considerable global momentum in recent years, and as result of the introduction of neo-liberal policy on a global scale cross-country exchange of research appears to be immensely useful for mutual benefit and learning. The neo-liberal policy has generated new modes of governance in the developing countries in keeping with their political traditions and natures of the regime. The scholars of Public Administration and Public Policy in each of the developed and developing countries are doing their best to study and capture the emerging dynamics. This new crop of research can be used to develop new theoretical frameworks not only for the development of Public Administration and Public Policy as an autonomous field of intellectual enquiry but also for creating the scientific base of the discipline. This underscores the need for teaming up researchers working in countries where neo-liberal policy has been practised for long and where it has just been introduced. It necessitates the networking of organizations and individual researchers in countries where neo-liberal policy is being practised or new administrative practices are being developed to cope with changing situations. As some of the developing countries have formed a sort of a group called BRICS countries it is time to learn from their administrative practices and challenges. India adopted the neo-liberal policy in the 1990s but the basic purpose for which it has been adopted is still to be achieved. It is high time for us to learn from the countries of similar tradition and political regime and the group of countries styled as BRICS countries. All these have prompted us to create an international research network through which the Indian scholars would be able to connect themselves with their international counterparts. Incidentally, Indian Public Administration and Public Policy fraternity seem to be lagging in networking themselves through the organizational tie. This network will facilitate such exchange in a meaningful way and contribute to the birth and blossoming up of innovative ideas which would help us formulate theoretical perspectives to enquire and understand emerging administrative realities in the countries under study.