Governance Issues and Challenges By Abhay Prasad Singh

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.<br />Features<br />Discussion moves from global origins and perspectives of governance to South Asia and subsequently to India<br />In-depth coverage of changes in the concepts of governance after the onset of globalization and revolutions in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)<br />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<br />Concise and organized coverage of entire syllabus for the topic of governance within the framework of 13 chapters distributed across six Parts<br />An useful text for graduate and postgraduate students, researchers and aspirants of civil and state services examination<br />Table of Contents Part 1 Introduction<br />Chapter 1 Contemporary Discourses on Governance in India<br />Part 2 State, Government and<br />Governance<br />Chapter 2: Government, Governance and Good Governance:<br />A Concept<br />Chapter 3: the State in India in a Globalizing World<br />Part 3 Democracy, Development and Governance<br />Chapter 4: Changing Dimensions of Development in India<br />Chapter 5: Strengthening Democracy through Good Governance<br />Part 4: Environmental<br />Governance<br />Chapter 6: Human–Environment Interaction<br />Chapter 7: Green Governance: Sustainable Human Development<br />Part 5: Participatory Governance <br />Chapter 8: Democratic Decentralization and Local Governance in India<br />Chapter 9: People’s Participation in Governance<br />Part 6: Good Governance Initiatives<br />in India<br />Chapter 10: Government, Governance and Public Service Delivery in India<br />Chapter 11: E-Governance in India<br />Chapter 12: Citizen’s Charter and Right to Information in India<br />Chapter 13: Corporate Social Responsibility: the Indian Experience.