In Search Of Better Governance In South Asia And Beyond

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781461473725

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In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond by Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal Pdf

The pursuit for better governance has assumed center stage in developmental discourse as well as reform initiatives of all organizations working for the public welfare, and includes such issues as service delivery and responding to citizens’ needs and demands. In the era of globalization, multilevel and new modes of governance are changing the traditional governance models of nation states, accelerated by technological innovation, rising citizen expectation, policy intervention from international and multilateral donor communities, and the hegemony of western ideology imposed on many developing nations. However, a universally accepted and agreed upon definition of 'governance’ still remains elusive. There is no consensus or agreement as to what would be the nature and form of governance and public administration. The question that is raised: Is there a universal governance mechanism that fits in all contexts or governance mechanisms should be based on home grown ideas?One can see various programs and policies of reforms and reorganizations in public administration in the developing countries, but these efforts have not been effective to address the challenging issues of economic development, employment generation, poverty reduction, ensuring equality of access to public services, maintaining fairness and equity, security and safety of citizens, social cohesion, democratic institution building, ensuring broader participation in the decision making process, and improving the quality of life. Therefore, there is a widespread concern for better governance or sound governance to bridge the gap between theory and practice, making this book of interest to academics as well as policy-makers in global public administration.

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 146147373X

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In Search of Better Governance in South Asia and Beyond by Ishtiaq Jamil,Steinar Askvik,Tek Nath Dhakal Pdf

Author : Mely Caballero-Anthony
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231544498

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Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and Beyond by Mely Caballero-Anthony Pdf

The threats the world currently faces extend beyond traditional problems such as major power competition, interstate conflict, and nuclear proliferation. Non-traditional security challenges such as climate change, migration, and natural disasters surpass states’ capacity to address them. These limitations have led to the proliferation of other actors—regional and international organizations, transnational networks, local and international nongovernmental organizations—that fill the gaps when states’ responses are lacking and provide security in places where there is none. In this book, Mely Caballero-Anthony examines how non-traditional security challenges have changed state behavior and security practices in Southeast Asia and the wider East Asia region. Referencing the wide range of transborder security threats confronting Asia today, she analyzes how non-state actors are taking on the roles of “security governors,” engaging with states, regional organizations, and institutional frameworks to address multifaceted problems. From controlling the spread of pandemics and transboundary pollution, to managing irregular migration and providing relief and assistance during humanitarian crises, Caballero-Anthony explains how and why non-state actors have become crucial across multiple levels—local, national, and regional—and how they are challenging regional norms and reshaping security governance. Combining theoretical discussions on securitization and governance with a detailed and policy-oriented analysis of important recent developments, Negotiating Governance on Non-Traditional Security in Southeast Asia and Beyond points us toward “state-plus” governance, where a multiplicity of actors form the building blocks for multilateral cooperative security processes to meet future global challenges.

Author : John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 9781487522551

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The Political Economy of Education in South Asia by John Richards,Manzoor Ahmed,Md. Shahidul Islam Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible treatment of recent academic and policy studies of basic education in South Asia.

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Tek Nath Dhakal,Narendra Raj Paudel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319901916

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Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia by Ishtiaq Jamil,Tek Nath Dhakal,Narendra Raj Paudel Pdf

This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices. The existing literature has, however, not given adequate attention to these developments, at least in a single volume. The book describes both the shared administrative traditions of Bhutan, Bangladesh, China, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and how far they have adapted their administrative systems to respond to contemporary administrative and governance challenges. The book studies how national civil service reforms have been carried out in each member state of South Asia and how the national civil service acts and different regulations are being implemented, as well as what are the critical factors associated with the implementation of national civil service acts and reform measures in the region.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000563573

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Seeing South Asia by Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy Pdf

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual anthropology, significance of visual symbols and representations in contemporary performances and folk art, visual landscapes of loss and recovery and representation of refugees, visual public in South Asia and making of visuals for contemporary consumptions. The chapters unravel the concepts of visual, visibility, visuality while attending to determinant meta-ideas, such as memory and modernity, trajectories of tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and visual performative politics. Based on interdisciplinary resources, the chapters in this volume present a wide array of empirical findings across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, along with analytical readings of the visual culture of the subcontinent across borders. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Sk. Tawfique M. Haque
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319152189

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Governance in South, Southeast, and East Asia by Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Sk. Tawfique M. Haque Pdf

This book explores and analyzes governance and policy issues in South, Southeast, and East Asia. It maps governance challenges and analyzes current trends from the perspectives of democracy, public policy, and public institutions. Regional public administration and governance systems have undergone some phenomenal changes over the last three decades and have played a key role in the economic progress of the area, especially in the Southeast and East Asian nations. Rich with country-specific evidence and analyses, the chapters in the book apply empirical and other research methods to examine shifting paradigms and best practices. This book develops an understanding of changes in the forms, process and practices of governance, both within the context of each nation and in a comparative perspective. The book will appeal to scholars, academics, students, and practitioners of public administration, political science, and policy issues.

Author : Vijay Kumar Shrotryia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030332709

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Human Well-Being and Policy in South Asia by Vijay Kumar Shrotryia Pdf

This book explores human well-being in South Asia from a policy dimension. It discusses the cultural history and diversity of the region in order to highlight major priority areas of public policy to improve people’s quality of life. The huge gap between economic development and human development, in areas such as education, health and income, is a concern for policymakers, researchers and other stakeholders. The book helps develop a strong argument for a shift of focus of state’s expenditures aimed at improving human well-being, and assesses public policy initiatives from the perspectives of the stakeholders such as the state, the market, households, civil society as well as NGOs and agencies involved in this development mission. As such it is of great interest to scholars in the field of quality-of-life and well-being research and policymakers at national and international level.

Author : Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder,Pranab Kumar Panday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000760620

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Government and NGOs in South Asia by Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder,Pranab Kumar Panday Pdf

This book analyses efforts of Bangladeshi government and NGOs to strengthen local governance, and identifies the challenges posed by collaboration with NGOs. Presenting a dominantly qualitative study, the analysis explores whether engagement between the Sharique project to strengthen local governance and the Union Parishads has translated into success. In doing so, it argues that evidence points to a positive impact on institutionalising good governance and fiscal autonomy through widening participation in planning and decision-making, reinforcing accountability of functionaries and enhancing tax collection. Furthermore, this book demonstrates that the collaboration has aided the process of development of social capital between officials of councils and NGOs, as well as amongst the community members, encouraging future partnership governance. However, with the phasing out of the project as a propelling force, it also shows that the results fall short of being sustainable and, as such, that statuary support, unequivocal political commitment, and incentivising engagements are required to stabilise outcomes. Bridging a gap in the Development Studies literature, this book presents new findings on the collaboration of NGOs at the local level. It will be of interest to academics working in the field of South Asian Studies, Development Studies, and Asian Politics.

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030360122

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Gender Mainstreaming in Politics, Administration and Development in South Asia by Ishtiaq Jamil,Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman,Syeda Lasna Kabir,M. Mahfuzul Haque Pdf

This book explores and analyzes gender mainstreaming in South Asia. Gender mainstreaming as a concept is about removing disparities between men and women – about equal access to resources, inclusion and participation in the public sphere, representation in government, and empowerment, all with the aim of achieving equal opportunities for men and women in family life, society, administration, politics, and the economy. The challenges of gender mainstreaming in South Asia are huge, especially in the contexts of patriarchal, religious, and caste-based social norms and values. Men’s dominance in politics, administration, and economic activities is distinctly visible. Women have been subservient to the policy preferences of their male counterparts. However, in recent years, more women are participating in politics at the local and national levels, in administration, and in formal economic activities. Have gender equality and equity been ensured in South Asia? This book focuses on how gender-related issues are incorporated into policy formulation and governance, how they have fared, what challenges they have encountered when these policies were put into practice, and their implications and fate in the context of five South Asian countries. The authors have used varied frameworks to analyze gender mainstreaming at the micro and macro levels. Written from public administration and political science perspectives, the book provides an overview of the possibilities and constraints of gender mainstreaming in a region, which is not only diverse in ethnicity and religion, but also in economic progress, political culture, and the state of governance.

Author : Matthew J. Webb
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317393122

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Separatist Violence in South Asia by Matthew J. Webb Pdf

Since decolonization began in the late 1940s, a series of often lengthy and destructive separatist insurgencies have imposed severe financial, economic and human costs upon the states of South Asia. Whereas previous analyses of these conflicts have typically focussed upon the parent state or separatist group as the relevant unit of analysis, this book adopts a broader framework, arguing that separatism cannot be understood in isolation from the concept of state sovereignty. This book explores the motives, tactics, successes and failures of South Asia’s separatist movements by deconstructing sovereignty into its constituent components and offers an explanation for why separatism, but not political violence, has recently declined in the region. Taking a comparative explanatory viewpoint, it offers a comprehensive review of relevant explanatory theories dominant in the scholarly literature on separatism and an examination of their application to the South Asian states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. As a thought-provoking discussion of statehood and sovereignty, this book will be of interest to students of political theory, comparative politics, international relations and South Asian politics.

Author : Haroon A. Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317567202

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The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South by Haroon A. Khan Pdf

One of the major objectives of good governance is human development. Many worry that without good governance, many developing countries may become failed states. Using one of the worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh to date, Haroon A. Khan helps further our understanding of the importance of bureaucratic capacity for achieving good governance and offers a new paradigm for a merit system to improve governance. In doing so, he introduces the reader to the concept of good governance and its importance by investigating its relationship with failed states, globalization, bureaucratic effectiveness, and human development. The Idea of Good Governance and the Politics of the Global South will be useful for the students interested in political science, public administration and international relations.

Author : Sanjeev Kumar H. M.
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003817741

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Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations by Sanjeev Kumar H. M. Pdf

This book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political communities, upon the evolution of the problématique of state security in South Asia. For the purpose of undertaking this task, the author deconstructs the countries’ colonial history, with an aim to mapp its impact on the making of the foreign policy of Pakistan. Drawing primarily from colonial discourse theory and historical sociology, the book links the trajectory of Pakistan’s international politics, to its domestic politics and “weak state” inheritances. By doing this, it offers a stimulating treatment of the history of the country’s troubled postcolonial relations with India. This has been done in the book, by presenting the modes by which the religio-military and politico-bureaucratic classes that constitute the power elite in Pakistan, tended to have moulded an India-centred State security problématique. This book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian security, India-Pakistan relations and the defence and foreign policy of Pakistan.

Author : Ishtiaq Jamil,Tek Nath Dhakal,Sk Tawfique M Haque,Laxmi Kanta Paudel,Hasan Muhammad Baniamin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030660185

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Policy Response, Local Service Delivery, and Governance in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka by Ishtiaq Jamil,Tek Nath Dhakal,Sk Tawfique M Haque,Laxmi Kanta Paudel,Hasan Muhammad Baniamin Pdf

This book analyzes contemporary issues in governance, policy management, and policy performance both at the central and local levels in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The focus is on some central social issues such as empowerment, the inclusion of minorities, institutional trust, policy implementation, and local service delivery. Although these three countries have recently opted for democratic governance, the journey to establish and consolidate democracy as well as enhance governance capacity have been painful and filled with challenges. The chapters in this volume are country specific studies based on empirical data both quantitative and qualitative collected for several years and presented in readable prose. This does not, however, rule out the general applicability of the findings to other contexts within and beyond the borders of these countries. Despite huge differences in South Asia, the policy and governance issues and challenges that are explored, highlighted, and analyzed also have commonalities with other South Asian countries.

Author : Tor Halvorsen,Jorun Nossum
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781928331322

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North-South Knowledge Networks Towards Equitable Collaboration Between by Tor Halvorsen,Jorun Nossum Pdf

Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing and hotly contested. In this collection, a mix of renowned academics and newer voices reflect on some of the realities of international research partnerships. They both question and highlight the agency of academics, donors and research institutions in the geopolitics of knowledge and power. The contributors offer fresh insights on institutional transformation, the setting of research agendas, and access to research funding, while highlighting the dilemmas researchers face when their institutions are vulnerable to state and donor influence. Offering a range of perspectives on why academics should collaborate and what for, this book will be useful to anyone interested in how scholars are adapting to the realities of international networking and how research institutions are finding innovative ways to make NorthSouth partnerships and collaborations increasingly fair, sustainable and mutually beneficial.