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R.B. Jain (b. 1933)is presently a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research at the Indian Institute of Public Administration. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science. University of Delhi, Delhi(India), and Professor and Head of the Department of Public Administration at Punjabi University, Patiala and Professor of Public Administration at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. He has held appointments as Visiting Professor at various Universities in Canade, U.S.A. and Germany and has lectured as Guest Professor at a number of Universities and research intitutions in all the continents. A former editor of Indian Journal of Prolitical Science, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Indian Journal of Political Science, and member of the Editorial Board of The India Journal of Public Administration, he is currenlty on the editoorial board of Environment nd Security, a member of Board of Directors of the Center for BUsiness and Public Sector Ethics at Cambridge, Delhi Regional Branch of the Indian Institute of Public Administration. He has authored/editied 26 books and published more than 150 articles in refereed journals and compendiums all over the world.He was also a member of the Advisory Panel on Electoral Reforms and standards i public life of the Government of India's National Commission to review the working of the constitution and is on the panel of consultants to various foundations and organizations in Idnian and board. He has written extensively on Electoral and Pary Reforms, Good Governance and Political and Bureaucratic Corruption.