Definition
Simply, “governance refers to the manner in which power is exercised in the management of countries’ economic and social resources for development” (World Bank 1992, p. 1). It is proposed to interpret the concept as the undertaking of activities, management of resources, organization of men and women by the branches of the state (executive, legislature, and judiciary) with the cooperation of communities, local government bodies, business organizations, CSOs, and other private sectors through social, political, administrative, and economic arrangement that meet the daily needs of people and ensure human rights and sustainable development.
Introduction
The concept “governance” has been used as a much pronounced and popular word in the field of politics and government for half a century, and emerged as a new “Paradigm of Public Administration” during the 1990s, and eventually accepted as an academic discourse. The thinking of Public Administration as a discipline was initially...
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Mollah, A.H. (2019). Governance. In: Romaniuk, S., Thapa, M., Marton, P. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74336-3_578-1
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