Good Governance Analysis

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The word ‘governance’ is similar to the word ‘government’ but both means different when it comes to an action. Governance can’t be defined in a one particular way. Government is machinery through which the power of the state is formulated, expressed and realized whereas governance is a formal process of government along with the informal activities (public or private) to achieve a common goal. In present times every nation is focusing on achieving good governance which is one of the developmental goals for them. Surendra Munshi says that good governance is a main target of many international organizations such as World Bank, IMF, OECD, ADB, DFID, CIDA but each one of them has different method of implementing it. In late 1980s World Bank and…show more content…
He is against liberalization and talks about bringing goodness at government, civil society and corporate sector including transnational corporations whereas Surendra Munshi finds issue in democracy, bureaucracy and industry. He puts representatives and bureaucrats in two different boxes claiming for working of bureaucracy and democracy separately. According to him good governance involves process, persons, principles and purpose. (Surendra Munshi.et.al, 2001, The intelligent person’s guide to good governance, Chapter 1). Presently governance cannot work alone with the help of government but it also requires civil society, private organizations, activists, non-profit organizations and NGOs. Civil society constitutes agencies, organizations and individual actors which are not governmental. They work according to public actions for the purpose of common good. The post Berlin wall redefines the civil society as the third sphere, state and market being the first and second respectively. Civil society is closely linked to governance such that it can execute the policies made by executive thus making governance…show more content…
An ideal civil society should have some features like-independent (not independent by the rule of law), broad functioning, accountable, structure, composition and some rights. The present day civil society of India have impact on broad areas such as-ground level work, co-operation with the government, an eye over government and social movement. (Chandar Prabha Sharma,
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