Corruption and Quality of Governance : Experiences of Select Commonwealth Countries

Contents Introduction 1 Corruption and quality of governance a sociological analysis of the Indian experienceSL Sharma 2 Corruption and quality of governance issues based on few casesAsha Kapur Mehta 3 Corruption public policy and civil society the Indian experienceBS Ghuman Akshat Mehta and Ranjeet Singh 4 Corruption perceptions reality and policy implicationsBinayak Ray 5 Power and corruption in the twenty-first century how to remedy itRosamund Thomas 6 Confronting the corruption challengeBP Mathur 7 A simple choice the effective criminalization of corruptionYvon Dandurand 8 Corruption and civil society in India a global contextParamjit Singh Sahai 9 Anti-corruption machinery in India legal and institutional frameworkRamanjit Kaur Johal Anil Monga and Jaswinder Kaur 10 Corruption ombudsman and good governance the Indian contextRajni Ranjan Jha 11 Of good governance and corruptionVeer Singh 12 Governance power and corruption how to break the nexusRajesh Gill 13 Good governance challenges of human resource development HRDSL Goel 14 Corruption and good governance learning from ancient Indian wisdomSatya Prakash Singh 15 Good governance and ancient wisdomAruna Goel 16 Corruption an opinion survey of businessmen in ChandigarhBS Ghuman Anil Monga and Ramanjit Kaur Johal 17 Corruption and quality of governanceDS Cheema 18 Corruption in citizen-administration relationship some hypothesesGurvinder Arun Avasthy and Arun Avasthy 19 Combating corruption for quality governance role of NGOsRaj Kumar Siwach 20 Democratic governance in India a theoretical explorationAshutosh Kumar 21 Corruption and good governanceAjau Kumar Sharma 22 Corruption perceptions index meaning method interpretation ranking and IndiaAkshat Mehta 23 Corruption a stumbling block in quality governance in gram panchayatsMohinder Singh 24 E-governance a smart way to tackle corruptionVibha Sharma 25 Eradication of corruption through e-governancePrem Kumar and Praveen Arora 26 Corruption is it an issueSubhash C Arora and RK Prabhakar 27 Corruption and quality of governanceVK Kapoor The issue of corruption and its impact on governance has remained alive always With the ushering in of the new economic policy in India in 1991 the good governance mantra pushed it to the forefront two decades ago The history of scams in the recent and not so recent past along with the contentious issue of the Lokpal Bill on 2011 has brought this issue out of official and academic circles into the domain of civil society Thus this volume on corruption and quality of governance presenting conceptual and historical treatments of corruption and case studies from select Commonwealth countries including Australia Canada India and UK is or interest to every citizen More specifically it is an exercise in comparative administration of interest and great use to students researchers and teachers of administration as well as to aspiring and practicing administrators jacket 468 pp.…