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The idea and practice of governance have been much discussed particularly during the last two decades, and the theme now occupies a critical place not only in the development discourse but in the context of the legitimacy of a regime as well. At the very level of practice, the issue of governance is now beset with qualifications such as ‘good governance’ or ‘good enough governance’. One dimension of the governance question that has acquired significance in India as elsewhere in recent past is the changing position of the state vis-à-vis the market, the society in question and the larger transnational forces.
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For details, refer—Evans, Peter B, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Theda Skocpol, eds., (1985). Bringing State Back In. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
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The intellectual context for this argument can be found in James Ferguson (1994), The Anti-Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho, published by University of Minnesota Press; and, John Harriss, K Stokke and O Tomquist, eds (2004), Politicizing Democracy: the New Local Politics of Democratization, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
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Parasuraman, S., Sekher, M., Kattumuri, R. (2018). Governance and Governed: Why Governance?. In: Sekher, M., Parasuraman, S., Kattumuri, R. (eds) Governance and Governed. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5963-6_1
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