IS402-Chapter 1-Governance

What is the meaning of “Governance” by the Commission on Global Governance?

• The process of managing common affairs in a way that is legitimate, transparent, accountable, responsive, effective, and equitable.

• The control, guidance, and manipulation of people and organizations.

• The sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.

Traditionally, the term Governance had long overlapped with the word government and was mainly used to refer to administrative and political activities related to national public affairs.

• True

• False

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

• True

• False

What’s the difference between Government and Governance?

• Governance requires authority but, unlike government, this authority does not necessarily come from organs of the Government. However, the authority of government is necessarily the State.

• The body of government is necessarily the public institutions in a society, while the body of governance can either be a public institution, a private one, or even a cooperation between the two.

• Governance is the cooperation between a political state and its civil society, the Government and nongovernmental organizations, and public and private institutions, which can be mandatory or voluntary cooperation.

• All the points mentioned are correct.

Governance involves all stakeholders including public and private sectors, civil society, and individuals.

• True

• False

What are the indicators of good governance?

• Participatory, rule of law, effective and efficient, transparent, accountable, responsive, equitable and inclusive, consensus-oriented.

• The process of managing common affairs in a way that is legitimate, transparent, accountable, responsive, effective, and equitable.

• The sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs.

• The control, guidance, and manipulation of people and organizations.

The body of government is necessarily the public institutions in a society, while the body of governance can either be a public institution, a private one, or even a cooperation between the two.

• True

• False

Poverty, corruption, nepotism, distrust of government, poor economic system, and political instability are some of the factors that constitute a lack of good governance.

• True

• False

• No idea at all.

"Decentralization, rather than centralization; administration by the State, rather than redistribution by the State; management based on market principles, rather than management by administrative departments; cooperation between the State and private sectors, rather than being guided by the State" are the characteristics of Government.

• True

• False

What were the causes why the theory and practice of good governance sprang up in the 1990s?

• Good governance is more widely applicable than good government in the traditional sense.

• Globalization is becoming the dominant feature of our time.

• Good governance is an inevitable consequence of democratization.

• All points are the causes.