Ethics in Governance in India by Chakrabarty Bidyut

Author:Chakrabarty, Bidyut
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317329084
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Concluding observations

Contemporary governance is not just about efficiency; it also upholds democratic participation, accountability and empowerment. There is therefore a constant tension between (a) how to make government efficient and (b) how to keep it accountable. There is also a corresponding tension between ‘the conception of people as consumers in the context of relations between state and market’ and the conception of ‘people as citizens in the context of relations between state and society’.36 What it suggests is the increasing importance of citizen participation in public affairs. So, institutional reforms are but a significant step of ‘strengthening [people’s] voice in general – and the voice of the poor in particular’. This strategy, as the 2000 World Bank report endorses, emphasizes that

the institutional reform is not simply a matter of changing the ways in which public hierarchies are arranged. Its focus is on the broad array of ‘rules of the game’ that shape the incentives and actions of public actors – including the ‘voice’ mechanisms that promote the rule of law and the accountability of government to its citizens.37

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