Governance and Good Governance

The following are the features of modern governance, except:

• It is not a set of rules or an activity, but a process.

• It refers to administrative and political activities related to national public affairs.

• The process of governance is not based on control, but on coordination.

• It involves both public and private sectors.

• It is not a formal institution, but continuing interaction.

In a general sense, this refers to the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.

• Government

• Management

• Governance

• Sustainable Development

• Bureaucracy

[1] Governance includes formal institutions and regimes empowered to enforce compliance. [2] But governance has nothing to do with informal arrangements that people and institutions either have agreed to or perceive to be in their interest.

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[1] The body of government is necessarily the public institutions in a society. [2] On the other hand, the body of governance can either be a public institution, a private one, or even a cooperation between the two.

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[1] Governance can compensate for certain deficiencies of the State and the market in regulation and coordination, but it is never a panacea. [2] State and market can fail in social resource allocation; so can governance.

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Good governance requires the optimal collaborative management of public life between these two:

• State

• Technocrats

• Politicians

• Market

• Civil Society

[1] Something legal is necessarily legitimate. [2] Thus, all authority and orders are legitimate even though they are not genuinely recognized by the people.

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The following are true regarding essential characteristics of good governance, except:

• The higher the degree of legitimacy is, the higher the level of good governance will be.

• The higher the degree of transparency is, the higher the level of good governance will be.

• The more accountability to the public, the higher the level of good governance will be.

• The rule of law is impossible without a strong and authoritative executive who follows through his/her own political will.

• The greater the level of responsiveness is, the higher the level of good governance will be.

It is considered the arch-enemy of political autocracy.

• Rule of Law

• Political Will

• Totalitarianism

• Authoritarianism

• Rule of the Majority

[1] In an autocratic system, it is possible to have good government when the system is at its best, but it is impossible to have good governance. [2] Good governance can only be achieved in a free and democratic political system, as it cannot emerge without freedom and democracy.

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