The Present volume contains papers presented at the XVII All-India Public Administration Conference held at Lucknow during Nove. 10-11, 2000. It opens with the Presidential Address on the current role of state and administration which is followed by VKN Menon Memorial Lecture on the administrator of the future. The remaining papers are divided into four parts.
The book has grown out of the definition of good governance as outlined by the World Bank and other foreign aid-giving agencies, but goes beyond it. It covers the various facets of good governance which has made the context of the volume much broader. Thus the volume concerns itself not only with the conceptual framework of good governance but its historical analysis covering the ancient, medieval and the British period as also provides examples from Western ...
