Abstract:
Governance has now become a popular jargon in every
day political discourse. However, in this globalised
world, it is no longer just about ‗for the people and by
the people‘ as it was during the last century. Instead, it
has and is undergoing administrative transformation
with strong democratic norms, upsurge in new forms of
state structures, diverse policy networks, assorted
organisations, and peoples‘ rising desire to participate
in the business of government. For understanding this
milieu, it is essential to trace, identify, and describe the
evolution of multiple paradigms of governance from
their orthodoxy to postmodernism with a view to
master the instruments of societal solutions. This
article endeavours to comprehend these philosophical
paradigms and principles, their development and
application in Pakistan‘s national context in order to
determine the practices that lead to the success of
public governance.
