New Governance Paradigm

Year:2008,Binding:Hardcover,Pages:396,Language:English, Description:- , About The Author:- T.M. Joseph (Editor), is currently Reader and Head, Department of Political Science, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala. He holds a doctorate in Development Administration from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. He also had been a Visiting Fellow at Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan from 1998 to 2000. Dr. Joseph is the recipient of the Fr. T.A. Mathias national award for innovative college teachers in 2001 instituted by the All India Association for Christian Higher Education. He is the author of Politicals of Recruitment: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in urban India and editor of two volumes; (1) Local governance in India: Ideas, Challenges and Strategies; and (2) Grassroots Democracy and Nation-Building. He also has several research papers published in national and international journals. He has piloted several research projects financed by the University grants Commission and Indian Council of Social science Research. He is also a member of Board of Studies and a research guide in Political Science at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam. He is interested in studies of Decentralisation, Development Administration, Affirmative Action, and Electoral Systems., Contents:- Preface and Acknowledgments