(The) Governance discourse : a reader / edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya

Includes appendices, bibliography, notes and index.

Introduction / Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya -- PART I : CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOVERNANCE : Contextualizing governance and development / Mohit Bhattacharya -- The repositioning of public governance : global experience and challenges / Gerald E. Caiden -- Whatever happened to public administration ? : governance, governance everywhere / H. George Frederickson -- Auditing for social changes : learning from civil society initiatives / Samuel Paul -- The governmentality of globalizing managerial discourse : the case of new public management in local government practices / Dorte Salskov-Iversen, Hans Krause Hansen and Sven Bislev -- PART II : EMPIRICAL MANIFESTATION OF GOVERNANCE : Administrative reforms and the demand of good governance / Kuldeep Mathur -- Good governance and administrative reforms in India / Bidyut Chakrabarty -- E-government : building SMART administration for India's states / Subhash C. Bhatnagar -- New regulatory institutions in India : white knights or trojan horses? / Saugata Bhattacharya and Urjit R. Patel -- An assessment of public-private partnership opportunities in India / Vinod B. Anniigeri, Lizann Prosser,Jack Reynolds and Raghu Roy