Ethics for Governance

<p>This book provides a comprehensive overview of India’s public services and bureaucratic systems, and explores why widespread corruption and inefficient delivery have slowed development. It:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>discusses the underlying reasons for the prevailing inefficiency in public services; </li> <p> </p> <li>examines the complex linkages between ethics-based public service, India’s cultural and spiritual heritage, and its current economic development model; and</li> <p> </p> <li>outlines ways to create an ethics code and an environment that is conducive to better administration and good governance. </li> </ul><p>Lucid, accessible, and meticulously researched, this will prove essential to scholars and students of public administration, governance studies and political science, particularly bureaucrats, policy-makers and civil service aspirants.</p> <p><em>Preface</em>. <em>Acknowledgements</em>.<b> Part I: Introduction</b> <b>1.</b> The Rise of Modern State <b>2.</b> Ingredients of Good Governance <b>Part II: Values and Character-Making</b> <b>3.</b> Fundamental Values for Humanity <b>4.</b> Character-Building for National Reconstruction <b>5.</b> Restoring Values: Inculcating Indian Ethos <b>Part III:</b> <b>Indian Administration through the Ages</b> <b>6.</b> Ancient Indian Polity <b>7.</b> The Mahabharata: Fundamentals of Governance <b>8.</b> Kautilya: The Art of Governance <b>9.</b> The Medieval Administration <b>10.</b> The British Administration <b>Part IV: Contemporary India</b> <b>11.</b> The Indian Polity after Independence <b>12.</b> The Current Economic Setting <b>13.</b> Constructing a New Economic Model <b>14.</b> The Gandhian Alternative to Economic Development <b>Part V: Public Administration: Problems and Solution</b> <b>15.</b> Public Services: Why They Don’t Function? <b>16.</b> Senior Civil Services: Reinventing Them <b>17.</b> International Experience in Reform: New Public Management <b>18.</b> Reforming Public Management: An Agenda <b>Part VI: An Ethical Framework</b> <b>19.</b> The Ethics of Public Service <b>20.</b> An Ethics Code: International Perspective <b>21.</b> An Ethics Code for Public Servants in India <b>Part VII: The Challenges</b> <b>22.</b> Combating Corruption: The Ethical Dimension <b>23.</b> Leadership and Individual Excellence <b>24.</b> Epilogue: India Realising its Destiny. <em>Bibliography</em>. <em>About</em> <em>the</em> <em>Author</em>. <em>Index.</em></p>