Governance: Issues and Challenges offers a detailed summary of the insights into the policy and governance processes over the last seven decades in India, providing a comparative and conceptual framework of governance drawing instances from developed countries, situating governance imperatives in South Asia, and finally, giving centrality to the issues and challenges of governance in India. This is also a unique attempt to address the need for a textbook on governance as per the syllabi of Indian universities. This book covers length and breadth of the topic of governance which has gained prominence since 2014.
About the Author
Abhay Prasad Singh,
PGDAV College
University of Delhi
Krishna Murari,
Shaheed Bhagat Singh College
University of Delhi
Features
• Discussion moves from global origins and perspectives of governance to South Asia and subsequently to India
• In-depth coverage of changes in the concepts of governance after the onset of globalization and revolutions in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
• Core themes covered are Contemporary Discourses on Governance, State, Government and Governance, Democracy, Development and Governance, Environmental Governance, Participatory Governance, and Good Governance Initiatives in India
• Concise and organized coverage of entire syllabus for the topic of governance within the framework of 13 chapters distributed across six parts
• An useful text for graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and aspirants of civil and state services examination
Table Content
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Contemporary Discourses on Governance in India
Part 2 State, Government and
Governance
Chapter 2: Government, Governance and Good Governance:
A Concept
Chapter 3: The State in India in a Globalizing World
PART 3 Democracy, Development
and Governance
Chapter 4: Changing Dimensions of Development in India
Chapter 5: Strengthening Democracy through Good Governance
Part 4: Environmental
Governance
Chapter 6: Human–Environment Interaction
Chapter 7: Green Governance: Sustainable Human Development
Part 5: Participatory Governance
Chapter 8: Democratic Decentralization and Local Governance in India
Chapter 9: People’s Participation in Governance
Part 6: Good Governance Initiatives
in India
Chapter 10: Government, Governance and Public Service Delivery in India
Chapter 11: E-Governance in India
Chapter 12: Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information in India
Chapter 13: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Indian Experience
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