01829pab a2200241 454500 180718b2018 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Sharma, Arvind K. Governance: the concept and its dimensions 2018 p.1-14. Mar Governance, as the term came to be used since the 1980s and the 1990s under the influence of the neo-liberals, is about a minimalist state. It seeks a state rollback on the ground that state is inherently inefficient when compared with the markets. Apart from this, since then other versions have developed, which led one commentator to say that so numerous are the definitions of governance that it has become analytically an intractable construct. This article presents its subject matter in three sections. The first section focuses on the semantics; it underlines the need to distinguish between the conventional and the neo-liberal usages of the term governance. The second section, which forms the bulk of the present article, discusses the five strands that collectively form the complex whole we call governance. The third and the concluding section contrasts the positivism of the neoclassical economics and new institutional economics, from which the neo-liberal governance paradigm is shaped, with the normative orientation of the classical school of administrative thoughts that dominated the discipline of public administration during the first fifty years (the 1887ﾖ1937 period). - Reproduce Good Governance Non-state players Networks Executive agencies New public management Neoliberalism Governance Public administration Indian Journal of Public Administration 116526 116520 116520 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 64, Issue no: 1 AR116986 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR