Good Governance and Politics : An Indian Perspective
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Good politics as a precursor to good governance/L. Narasimha Reddy. 2. Good governance in political discourse/A.P.S. Chouhan. 3. Good governance, decentralization and Panchayat Raj as seen from the perspective of Mahatma Gandhi/Anuradha Ramanna and Jeevan Kumar. 4. From good governance to clean governance/Triranjan Raj and Sanjeev Kumar Sharma. 5. Need for good governance: issues and dimensions/Bishnu Charan Choudhury. 6. Livelihood struggles or civil society activism? Ethnographic reflections on the people living on the edge/Samir Kumar Das. 7. Administrative reforms for good governance/Y. Pardhasaradhi and Ravinder Kaur. 8. Good governance in India - constitutional and legal perspectives/G.B. Reddy. 9. Deliberative democracy and a vibrant public sphere: preconditions to good politics and good governance/A.V. Satish Chandra. 10. Media policy and governance/G. Ram Reddy. 11. A common civil code in India: deliberations in the constituent assembly in India/G. Lalaiah. 12. Politics and governance in democratic societies towards general good: from Laski to Habermas/V. Janardhan. 13. Public private partnership: a new discourse to achieve good governance/Shahla Tabassum. 14. The effect of Ahmadinejad\'s foreign policy on good governance in Iran after 2005/Seyed Hossein Zarhani. 15. E-Governance: a changing role of governance towards good governance/T. Sadashivam. Index.
This volume is articles is actually the papers presented by various eminent Political Science and other Social Sciences scholars from across the length and breadth of India. The theme of the seminar which was about the connection between good politics and governance was basically selected in order to explore more dimensions of good governance which get left our when people talk about good governance. It is well known that good governance talks about best practices with reference to electronic governance. By doing this there are many ethical-moral issues that come into governance or the lack of it due to the nature of pragmatic politics which at best are a moral. This seminar while not ignoring electronic governance asked for papers that go beyond electronic governance. The deliberations between various scholars also led to the papers acquiring greater relevance to the present context of governance and politics in India. These papers that are now published are a unique collection that covers contemporary issues of governance and politics and will be of great use to the student community as well as the teaching community of social sciences. (jacket)
This volume is articles is actually the papers presented by various eminent Political Science and other Social Sciences scholars from across the length and breadth of India. The theme of the seminar which was about the connection between good politics and governance was basically selected in order to explore more dimensions of good governance which get left our when people talk about good governance. It is well known that good governance talks about best practices with reference to electronic governance. By doing this there are many ethical-moral issues that come into governance or the lack of it due to the nature of pragmatic politics which at best are a moral. This seminar while not ignoring electronic governance asked for papers that go beyond electronic governance. The deliberations between various scholars also led to the papers acquiring greater relevance to the present context of governance and politics in India. These papers that are now published are a unique collection that covers contemporary issues of governance and politics and will be of great use to the student community as well as the teaching community of social sciences. (jacket)
