Government And Governance

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would stay course with the concept of Government as that of “the exercise of political authority over action or affairs of a political unit, people etc, as well as the performance of certain functions for this unit or body and the executive policy making body of a political unit, community etc” . 1.2. Governance Oxford dictionary defines Governance “as the action or manner of governing”. Governance relates to conducting policy and affairs of a state or community. The term “Governance” acquired common usage during the 1990s when it was profusely used in the 1989 World Development Report and acquired greater attention mainly as a synonym of financial accountability of governments. The meaning of this term was later re-conceptualized by UNDP, …show more content…

Government is distinct from Governance like a stem and flower where both supplement or complement each other’s existence but do not substitute the existence of the either. While examining the characteristics of Government and Governance Thomas B. Riley observed that over a period when representative governments started to seek and receive citizen support and needed active cooperation of their public servants, that the Governance came to be recognized as “the outcome of politics, policies, and programs and synthesis of politics, policies and programmes.” These outcomes come through legislation; policy formulation and implementation of public service and cover political, social and economic aspects of life and impact every level of human enterprise as individuals, the household, the village, the region or the …show more content…

Riley in his International Tracking Survey Report’03 titled “E-Government vs. E-Governance” says that Governance is a set of continuous processes and could be assumed to developed slowly with use rather than change dramatically (say with a change of government). Riley peruses Kettl’s observation that "Governance" is a way of describing the links between government and its broader environment – political, social, and administrative. Each of these dimensions forms a side of the "governance triangle" and emphasizes that Governance being distinct from government; it concerns longer-term processes rather than immediate decisions. He elaborates three categories of these processes to cover interactions between the government, the public service, and the citizenry. The engagement process covers the interaction between citizens and government; the consultation process covers the interaction between public servants and citizens; and the implementation process covers the interaction between the government and the public service. The result of the governance focus on processes instead of decisions is that the primary concern is goals rather than rules. In the perspective of governance what is important is the objective rather than the rules of behaviour for achieving

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