Corruption and Quality of Governance : Experiences of Select Commonwealth Countries
Contents: Introduction. 1. Corruption and quality of governance: a sociological analysis of the Indian experience/S.L. Sharma. 2. Corruption and quality of governance: issues based on few cases/Asha Kapur Mehta. 3. Corruption, public policy and civil society : the Indian experience/B.S. Ghuman, Akshat Mehta and Ranjeet Singh. 4. Corruption: perceptions, reality and policy implications/Binayak Ray. 5. Power and corruption in the twenty-first century: how to remedy it?/Rosamund Thomas. 6. Confronting the corruption challenge/B.P. Mathur. 7. A simple choice: the effective criminalization of corruption/Yvon Dandurand. 8. Corruption and civil society in India: a global context/Paramjit Singh Sahai. 9. Anti-corruption machinery in India: legal and institutional framework/Ramanjit Kaur Johal, Anil Monga and Jaswinder Kaur. 10. Corruption, ombudsman and good governance: the Indian context/Rajni Ranjan Jha. 11. Of good governance and corruption/Veer Singh. 12. Governance, power and corruption: how to break the nexus?/Rajesh Gill. 13. Good governance: challenges of human resource development (HRD)/S.L. Goel. 14. Corruption and good governance: learning from ancient Indian wisdom/Satya Prakash Singh. 15. Good governance and ancient wisdom/Aruna Goel. 16. Corruption: an opinion survey of businessmen in Chandigarh/B.S. Ghuman, Anil Monga and Ramanjit Kaur Johal. 17. Corruption and quality of governance/D.S. Cheema. 18. Corruption in citizen-administration relationship: some hypotheses/Gurvinder Arun Avasthy and Arun Avasthy. 19. Combating corruption for quality governance: role of NGOs/Raj Kumar Siwach. 20. Democratic governance in India: a theoretical exploration/Ashutosh Kumar. 21. Corruption and good governance/Ajau Kumar Sharma. 22. Corruption perceptions index: meaning, method, interpretation, ranking and India/Akshat Mehta. 23. Corruption: a stumbling block in quality governance in gram panchayats/Mohinder Singh. 24. E-governance: a smart way to tackle corruption/Vibha Sharma. 25. Eradication of corruption through e-governance/Prem Kumar and Praveen Arora. 26. Corruption: is it an issue/Subhash C. Arora and R.K. Prabhakar. 27. Corruption and quality of governance/V.K. Kapoor.
The issue of corruption and its impact on governance has remained alive always. With the ushering in of the new economic policy in India in 1991, the good governance mantra pushed it to the forefront two decades ago. The history of scams in the recent and not so recent past along with the contentious issue of the Lokpal Bill on 2011 has brought this issue out of official and academic circles into the domain of civil society. Thus this volume on corruption and quality of governance, presenting conceptual and historical treatments of corruption and case studies from select Commonwealth countries including Australia, Canada, India and UK, is or interest to every citizen. More specifically it is an exercise in comparative administration, of interest and great use to students, researchers and teachers of administration, as well as to aspiring and practicing administrators. (jacket)
The issue of corruption and its impact on governance has remained alive always. With the ushering in of the new economic policy in India in 1991, the good governance mantra pushed it to the forefront two decades ago. The history of scams in the recent and not so recent past along with the contentious issue of the Lokpal Bill on 2011 has brought this issue out of official and academic circles into the domain of civil society. Thus this volume on corruption and quality of governance, presenting conceptual and historical treatments of corruption and case studies from select Commonwealth countries including Australia, Canada, India and UK, is or interest to every citizen. More specifically it is an exercise in comparative administration, of interest and great use to students, researchers and teachers of administration, as well as to aspiring and practicing administrators. (jacket)
