Pardeep Sahni and Suresh Kumar Sharma, Governance in India, 2025, 742 pp., ₹799, New Age International, ISBN: 10: 9360742791.
The term ‘governance’ is a topical way to describe the structures and processes of the government and administration. The contours of public administration underwent a metamorphosis in the 1990s, as the liberalised and globalised world began looking at statecraft and administration in an interconnected manner and called it governance. The theoretical foundations were laid by Christopher Hood’s 1991 article, ‘A Public Management for All Seasons’, where he introduced the concept of new public management. This was supplemented by the 1992 World Bank report called ‘Governance and Development’, which introduced the concept of good governance. more...