The book is a critical examination and appraisal of the status, methodology and likely future trends of the emerging sub-discipline of Governing Development within the broader discipline of political science, leading to the application of Good Governance in the administration and development of the newly emerged nations during the later half of the twentieth century. From the Contents: Bureaucracy, development and governance: The conceptual evolution of a sub-discipline R.B. Jain, Public administration, bureaucracy and development in the Third World Vidu Soni, Public Administration to Good...

The book provides a review of the state of the art as regards local government studies, with an emphasis on contributions by political scientists. Particular attention is paid to the development of the research agenda in the field. At the end, a future research agenda is outlined. The first chapter of the book outlines the development of the research agenda of the field of local government studies; while community power studies were central topics from the 1930s and into the 1950s and 60s, policy-oriented research became increasingly popular in the 1970s. Institutional issues have always been...

The State of the Art. Traces the disciplinary development of political sociology and the transdisciplinary research into the overlapping issues involving politics and society.