(The) Governance discourse  a reader 
edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya 
 - New Delhi  Oxford University Press  2008 
 - xvi, 330p. ;  22.5 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes appendices, bibliography, notes and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /   PART I : CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF GOVERNANCE : Contextualizing governance and development /   The repositioning of public governance : global experience and challenges /   Whatever happened to public administration ? : governance, governance everywhere /   Auditing for social changes : learning from civil society initiatives /  The governmentality of globalizing managerial discourse : the case of new public management in local government practices /   PART II : EMPIRICAL MANIFESTATION OF GOVERNANCE : Administrative reforms and the demand  of good governance /  Good governance and administrative reforms in India /  E-government : building SMART administration for India's states /   New regulatory institutions in India : white knights or trojan horses? /   An assessment of public-private partnership opportunities in India /  Bidyut Chakrabarty and Mohit Bhattacharya --   Mohit Bhattacharya --   Gerald E. Caiden --   H. George Frederickson --   Samuel Paul --   Dorte Salskov-Iversen, Hans Krause Hansen and Sven Bislev --   Kuldeep Mathur --   Bidyut Chakrabarty --   Subhash C. Bhatnagar --   Saugata Bhattacharya and Urjit R. Patel --   Vinod B. Anniigeri, Lizann Prosser,Jack Reynolds and Raghu Roy 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195696646  Rs.850.00 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political science--Philosophy and theory<br/>Political Science
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Governance  
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.01  / CHG