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The term governance, after its emergence in the 1980s, has led to different conceptions, connotations, and contested understandings. Its wide and diverse uses make it seem all inclusive as well as vague. This chapter recaps some of the popular concepts of governance in political and administrative sciences. These are governance as good governance, governance as policy implementation, governance as institutional trust, governance as quality of government, governance as network, and governance as institutions. Some of these concepts have been used by the authors of this volume, at the macro-level, to analyze the implementation of national policies, as well as at the micro-level, to understand and conceptualize the meaning of governance in local service delivery in three South Asian countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The context of South Asia in general and these three countries in particular reflects a type of hybrid governance that combines not only the above-mentioned concepts of governance but also the paternalistic culture of South Asia, which can lead to informal but also trusting relations between institutions and society. The final part of the chapter introduces the individual authors’ contributions to the book. |
