An Ontology of Good Governance.A Political Theory Approach

Catalin-Valentin Raiu ()
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Catalin-Valentin Raiu: postdoctoral fellow, Institutul de Economie Nationala, Academia Rombna

Romanian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 40, issue 1(49), 154-169

Abstract: In the public discourse of European and international institutions the word 'government' seems to be replaced by 'governance'. While there is a very traditional liberal approach in political theory claiming that to govern means to exercise political power, it is not clear what governance means. In public administration theories, governance is used to imply statecraft that is the exercise of governmental responsibilities. The connotation of governance was borrowed from management and implies, in politics, to scale down big governments. The entire governance process tends to be depoliticized as the debates over basic democratic values have been overshadowed in the European Union context. Starting with Plato's definition of good governance, which he describes as right order, this paper aims to explore the ontology of (good) governance from a political theory perspective.

Keywords: political representation; governance; power; oikonomia; democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F55 F68 N4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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