Subject(s): E-Government -- Decentralization in government. -- Public administration. -- Political participation. -- Conceptual understanding of governance : Contextualizing governance and development, repositioning of public governance -global experience and challenges, public administration, auditing for social change learning from civil society initiatives, governmentality of globalizing managerial discourses- case of new public management in local government practices -- Empirical manifestations of governance : Administrative reforms and demand of good governance, good governance and administrative reforms in India, e-government building SMART administration for India's states, new regulatory institutions in India white Knights of Trojan horses, an assessment of public private partnership opportunities in India