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Good Governance Means Performance and Results
Author(s) -
Rotberg Robert I.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/gove.12084
Subject(s) - impartiality , corporate governance , autonomy , bureaucracy , good governance , politics , quality (philosophy) , business , public administration , political science , law , finance , philosophy , epistemology
If the object of developing and developed world leaders is to uplift their peoples continually, then it is essential to measure approximations of actual service deliveries (what we ought to mean by “governance”), not to rate nations impressionistically according to the perceived quality of their operations, their perceived impartiality (as per R othstein), the extent of their bureaucratic autonomy (as per F ukuyama and others), or their capacity to coax or coerce citizens. Only in that positive manner can we distinguish the governments that are producing abundant political goods (i.e., good governance) from those that no longer are, or never did.