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Good Governance and Colonial Entanglement in Bangladesh


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1 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Gopalganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2 IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 

Good governance remains at quagmire in Bangladesh. Bad governance or mal-governance, is often surfacing with heavy tolls on people's expectations. There lie multiple causes beneath such discouraging state. In this article, employing post- colonial standpoint, we argue that the machinery of public administration or governance in Bangladesh culturally and psychologically is not ready to adopt the essence of good governance. The colonial mind set of the government officials and shadow colonial administrative culture are anti- thesis to the fundamental elements of good governance such as participatory and consensus oriented governing system. Therefore, the article ventures to suggest that to ensure the responsible, pro- citizen governance, the internalization of colonial cultural has to be elucidated or in Ngugi wa Thiong's language, the mind has to be decolonized.

Keywords

Good Governance, Decolonization, Administrative Culture.
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Authors

Md. Mizanur Rahman
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science & Technology University, Gopalganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md. Alauddin
IUBAT-International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abstract


Good governance remains at quagmire in Bangladesh. Bad governance or mal-governance, is often surfacing with heavy tolls on people's expectations. There lie multiple causes beneath such discouraging state. In this article, employing post- colonial standpoint, we argue that the machinery of public administration or governance in Bangladesh culturally and psychologically is not ready to adopt the essence of good governance. The colonial mind set of the government officials and shadow colonial administrative culture are anti- thesis to the fundamental elements of good governance such as participatory and consensus oriented governing system. Therefore, the article ventures to suggest that to ensure the responsible, pro- citizen governance, the internalization of colonial cultural has to be elucidated or in Ngugi wa Thiong's language, the mind has to be decolonized.

Keywords


Good Governance, Decolonization, Administrative Culture.

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