01946pab a2200253 454500008004000000100002200040245004700062260000900109300001200118362000800130520121200138650002001350650002201370650001301392650002301405650002601428650001801454650001501472650002601487773004401513909001101557999001901568952010501587180718b2018   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSharma, Arvind K.  aGovernance: the concept and its dimensions  c2018  ap.1-14.  aMar  aGovernance, 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  aGood Governance  aNon-state players  aNetworks  aExecutive agencies  aNew public management  aNeoliberalism  aGovernance  aPublic administration  aIndian Journal of Public Administration  a116526  c116520d116520  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 64, Issue no: 1pAR116986r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR