Defining,Explaining and,then,Exploiting the Elusive Concept of"Governance"

• 作者: Philippe C·Schmitter
• 来源期刊: 复旦人文社会科学论丛:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: GOVERNANCE CIVIL society POLITICAL CITIZENSHIP DEMOCRACY POLICYMAKING Policy implementation
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（4）
• 页码范围: 547-567
• 页数: 21页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

The concept of “governance” has become omnipresent in the lexicon of politics and political science. It has very quickly acquired many different meanings, but its most important property seems to be its capacity to serve as a substitute for “government”. The former is (allegedly) good, and the latter is (allegedly) bad. In this essay, I explore the definition, the presumptions and the utility of governance. I conclude that it can make an important contribution of our understanding of the increasingly complex process of making and implementing public policies, but not as a substitute for government.