Governance Issues and Challenges

GE6 - Governance: Issues and Challenges
(B.6)
Generic Elective - (GE) Credit:6
Course Objective
This paper deals with concepts and different dimensions of governance highlighting the major
debates in the contemporary times. There is a need to understand the importance of the concept
of governance in the context of a globalising world, environment, administration, development.
The essence of governance is explored through the various good governance initiatives
introduced in India.
Course Learning Outcomes

• The students are acquainted with the changing nature of governance in the era of
globalization.
• The students are introduced to the most contemporary ideas of sustainable development
and green governance.
• The students become familiar with a rigorous introduction to the best practices in India
on good governance.
Unit 1
Government and Governance: Concepts [12 lectures]
a) Role of State in The Era of Globalisation
b) State, Market and Civil Society
Unit 2
Governance and Development [12 lectures]
Changing Dimensions of Development Strengthening Democracy through Good Governance
Unit 3
Environmental Governance [12 lectures]
a) Human-Environment Interaction
b) Green Governance: Sustainable Human Development
Unit 4
Local Governance [12 lectures]
a) Democratic Decentralisation
b) People's Participation in Governance
Unit 5
Good Governance Initiatives in India: Best Practices [20 lectures]
a) Public Service Delivery
b) Electronic Governance
c) Citizens Charter & Right to Information
d) Corporate Social Responsibility
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References
Government and Governance: Concepts
B. Chakrabarty and M. Bhattacharya, (eds.) The Governance Discourse. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press,1998
Surendra Munshi and Biju Paul Abraham (eds.), Good Governance, Democratic Societies and
Globalisation, Sage Publishers, 2004
United Nation Development Programme, Reconceptualising Governance, New York, 1997
Carlos Santiso, Good Governance and Aid Effectiveness: The World Bank and Conditionality,
Johns Hopkins University, The Georgetown Public Policy Review, Volume VII, No.1, 2001
Vasudha Chotray and Gery Stroker, Governance Theory: A Cross Disciplinary Approach,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
J. Rosenau, ‘Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics’, in J. Rosenau, and E. Czempiel
(eds.) Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992
B. Nayar (ed.), Globalization and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007 pp. 218-
240.
Smita Mishra Panda, Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society,
Sage Publications, 2008
Neera Chandhoke, State and Civil Society Explorations in Political Theory, Sage Publishers,
1995
िसं ह, अभय प्रसाद एवं कृष्ण मुरारी (2018), शासन: मुद्दे एवं चुनौितयाँ, ओिरयंट ब्लैकस्वान, नई िदल्ली
चक्रबतीर्, िबद्युत, प्रकाश चंद (2018), वैश्वीकृत दुिनया में लोक प्रशासन, सेज भाषा, नई िदल्ली
िसन्हा, मनोज (2010) प्रशासन एवं लोकनीित, ओिरयंट ब्लैकस्वान, नई िदल्ली
Governance and Development
B. C. Smith, Good Governance and Development, Palgrave, 2007
World Bank Report, Governance and Development, 1992
P. Bardhan, ‘Epilogue on the Political Economy of Reform in India’, in The Political Economy
of Development in India. 6th edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005
J. Dreze and A. Sen, India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity. New Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1995
Niraja Gopal Jayal[ed.], Democracy in India, Oxford University Press, 2007
Environmental Governance
Ramachandra Guha, Environmentalism: A Global History, Longman Publishers, 1999
J.P. Evans, Environmental Governance, Routledge, 2012
Emilio F. Moran, Environmental Social Science: Human - Environment interactions and
Sustainability, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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Burns H Weston and David Bollier, Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights and
the Law of the Commons, Cambridge University Press, 2013
Bina Agarwal, Gender and Green Governance, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013
J. Volger, ‘Environmental Issues’, in J. Baylis, S. Smith and P. Owens (eds.) Globalization of
World Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 348-362.
A. Heywood, Global Politics, New York: Palgrave, 2011, pp. 383-411.
N. Carter, The Politics of Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007, pp. 13-81.
Local Governance
Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee, Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing
Countries: A Comparative Perspective, MIT Press, 2006
T.R. Raghunandan, Decentralization and Local Governments: The Indian Experience, Readings
on The Economy, Polity and Society, Orient Blackswan, 2013
Pardeep Sachdeva, Local Government in India, Pearson Publishers, 2011
P. de Souza, (2002) ‘Decentralization and Local Government: The Second Wind of Democracy
in India’, in Z. Hasan, E. Sridharan and R. Sudarshan (eds.) India’s Living Constitution: Ideas,
Practices and Controversies, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2002
Mary John, ‘Women in Power? Gender, Caste and Politics of Local Urban Governance’,
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 42(39), 2007
Good Governance Initiatives in India: Best Practices
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism, and Development in
Contemporary India, Oxford University Press, 1999
Reetika Khera[ed.], The Battle for Employment Guarantee, Oxford University Press, 2011
Nalini Juneja, Primary Education for All in the City of Mumbai: The Challenge Set By Local
Actors', International Institute For Educational Planning, UNESCO: Paris, 2001
Maxine Molyneux and Shahra Razavi, Gender, Justice, Development, and Rights, Oxford
Jugal Kishore, National Health Programs of India: National Policies and Legislations, Century
Publications, 2005
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, India, Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford
K. Lee and Mills, The Economic of Health in Developing Countries, Oxford University Press,
1983
Marmar Mukhopadhyay and Madhu Parhar (eds.) Education in India: Dynamics of
Development, Shipra Publications, 2007
K. Vijaya Kumar, Right to Education Act 2009: Its Implementation as to Social Development in
India, Akansha Publishers, 2012
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Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze, Omnibus: Poverty and Famines, Hunger and Public Action, India-
Economic Development and Social Opportunity, Oxford University Press, 1998
Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory: India And Its Contradictions, Princeton
Reetika Khera, ‘Rural Poverty and Public Distribution System’, Economic and Political Weekly,
Vol-XLVIII, No.45-46, Nov 2013
Pradeep Chaturvedi, Women and Food Security: Role of Panchayats, Concept Publishing House,
2002
Bidyut Mohanty, “Women, Right to Food and Role of Panchayats”, Mainstream, Vol. LII, No.
42, October 11, 2014
D. Crowther, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deep and Deep Publishers, 2008
Sanjay K. Agarwal, Corporate Social Responsibility in India, Sage Publishers, 2008
Pushpa Sundar, Business & Community: The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility in India,
New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2013.
Teaching Learning Process

The General Elective course titled, Governance: Issues and Challenges in CBCS programme aim
to engage the students in the classroom by following the 6 E's and S (Engage, Explore, Explain,
Elaborate, Evaluate, Extend, and Standards) strategy. The lesson plan is designed to continually
engage students to add/ construct new knowledge in combination with the existing knowledge.
Teachers give the lecture to introduce the concepts, process and incorporate the skills in students
to probe the ‘essential question’ which every unit comes with forming the basis of enquiry.
Critical thinking and cooperative learning is another teaching learning tool used in this course to
engage students to learn together in a group promoting a climate of deliberation, discussion, and
knowledge sharing. This is crucial since this paper deals with a topic like sustainable
development, green governance which requires active participation from civil society, academia,
students, bureaucracy, politics, etc. Power Point Presentation, audio visual methods like
documentary screening are significant in this course to engage the students with real life
globalized scenarios.
Assessment Methods
This course has a scope of undertaking field studies to understand the globalized discourse using
contextual, theoretical, grounded, mixed method approach. The students will be evaluated on the
written semester examination. Internal examination can be assessed on various parameters like
project/ article/ term paper/ group presentation/ field work. Additionally, students reflective and
cognitive thinking will be assessed by the contribution they make in classroom discussions and
group projects.
Keywords
Good Governance, Green Governance, Democratic Decentralisation, Public Service Delivery, E-
Governance, RTI, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
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