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Subject(s)

• Water resources development—India [Browse]
• Democracy—India [Browse]
• Neoliberalism—India [Browse]

Series

• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 70. [More in this series]
• Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 70 [More in this series]

Summary note

Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance.Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water governance reforms in south India (Karnataka), the book examines the two propositions that underlie the current good governance debate. The first refers to a claim that good governance is both democratic and pro-market. The second to the claim that commercially-oriented water services, whether private

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Language note

English

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Getting (in)to good governance
• 3. Karnataka : the state of a determined path
• 4. Demonstrating development
• 5. Can we have a civil-consumer slum, please.
• 6. Of operational significance
• 7. Conclusion : the power to reform.

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ISBN

• 1-135-04092-3
• 0-203-78721-8
• 9780203787212

OCLC

• 849246506
• 849246318

Doi

10.4324/9780203787212

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