Part 1. Setting the scene.- Chapter 1. Why is governance important in the development debate.- Chapter 2. Understanding governance as a process: A framework for analysis.- Part 2. From Government to Governance.- Chapter 3. Local Government and the Governed: A Prismatic View of Indias Rural Local Governance.- Chapter 4. Governance and Administration in Post-Apartheid Africa.- Chapter 5. Fiscal Reforms at the Local Level in India: An Overview.- Part 3. Rethinking and Restructuring Governance.- Chapter 6. Peoples Participated Governance Performance Evaluation and New Governance: A case study on Hangzhou.- Chapter 7. The Emergence of Governance Discourse in Liberalizing India.- Chapter 8. Rethinking Environmental Governance.- Chapter 9. Corporate Governance: At the Crossroads.- Chapter 10. Electronic Technology and the Changing Dynamism of Governance.- Part 4. Governance and Exclusion: Navigating the Roadblocks.- Chapter 11. Participatory Governance in Brazil.- Chapter 12. Governing Diversity and its Challenges.- Chapter 13. Governance and Violence: Communal Violence, Displacement and Growth in Gujarat.
