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100			_aSharma, Arvind K.
245			_aGovernance: the concept and its dimensions
260			_c2018
300			_ap.1-14.
362			_aMar
520			_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
650			_aGood Governance
650			_aNon-state players
650			_aNetworks
650			_aExecutive agencies
650			_aNew public management
650			_aNeoliberalism
650			_aGovernance
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
909			_a116526
999			_c116520 _d116520