Governance: Issues and Challenges

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. FeaturesDiscussion 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 IndiaConcise 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 examinationTable of Contents Part 1 IntroductionChapter 1 Contemporary Discourses on Governance in IndiaPart 2 State, Government andGovernanceChapter 2: Government, Governance and Good Governance:A ConceptChapter 3: the State in India in a Globalizing WorldPart 3 Democracy, Development and GovernanceChapter 4: Changing Dimensions of Development in IndiaChapter 5: Strengthening Democracy through Good GovernancePart 4: EnvironmentalGovernanceChapter 6: Human–Environment InteractionChapter 7: Green Governance: Sustainable Human DevelopmentPart 5: Participatory Governance Chapter 8: Democratic Decentralization and Local Governance in IndiaChapter 9: People’s Participation in GovernancePart 6: Good Governance Initiativesin IndiaChapter 10: Government, Governance and Public Service Delivery in IndiaChapter 11: E-Governance in IndiaChapter 12: Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information in IndiaChapter 13: Corporate Social Responsibility: the Indian Experience.