The possibilities for good governance depends on institutional structures and the economic resources available for ensuring governance. In some cases centralised governance structures are inefficient. In other cases, decentralised structures turn out to be inadequate. In India decentralisation of power to village level has not improved the efficiency of rural development. Decentralisation of po...

Reforms and innovations in the governmental and bureaucratic apparatus of the nation-state are an important pre-requisite for development. This paper provides suggestive evidence that e-government and the related view of the neo-liberal state implicit in the good governance discourse put forward by the International Development Agencies might not be conducive to rapid late development. The New ...

E-Governance is a powerful tool to bring about change to the government processes in the developing world. E-governance operates at the cross roads between Information and Communication Technology and government processes and is divided in three overlapping domains: e-administration, e-services and e-society. In order to be successful, e-governance needs to be firmly embedded in the existing go...

This article will show how Luhmann’s concept of functional differentiation makes it possible to analyse how the government draws various stakeholders into governable terrain through the use of different functional systems. The article takes its outset in a recent reform aimed at a renewal of the authority relations between the municipalities and the non-governmental housing associations in Denm...

A central problem in designing effective models of provider governance in health systems has been to ensure an appropriate balance between the concerns of public sector and/or government decision-makers, on the one hand, and of non-governmental health services actors in civil society and private life, on the other. In tax-funded European health systems up to the 1980s, the state and other publi...

good governance is an idea which has many advocates and opponents. from last years of 1980s this term became common. however, there is not any clear definition or description for good governance or even governance. though unanimity on its characteristics is invisible, it is possible to consider eight characteristics for god governance: participation, accountability, transparency, rule of law, r...

The purpose of the procurement governance framework is to drive behavior towards achieving the procurement objectives of the government. The Procurement Governance Framework defines and allocates accountabilities, communications, standards and major practices, and institutional responsibilities for public procurement. e-GP system designed and implemented in line with the framework complements a...