Muskaan Sharma, LL.M., Amity Law School Noida
INTRODUCTION
Recently the terms “governance” and “good governance "are widely used in development studies. In international development, good governance is a way of estimating how public institutions manage public affairs and regulate public services in a popular manner. Governance is "the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are made (or may not be achieved)". Governance in this context can apply to business, international, national, or local governance and interdependence.
The concept of “good governance” emerges as a model for comparing an inactive economy or political parties with a functioning economy and political parties. The concept focuses on the commitment of governments and governing bodies to meet the needs of more people than elected groups in society. Because countries are often described as "very successful" by democratically governed, European and American democracies, standards of good governance often equate other state institutions against these states. Aid agencies and authorities in developed countries will often focus on the meaning of “good governance” in a set of needs that are in line with the organization’s agenda, making “good governance” mean many different things in many different contexts. The opposite of good governance, as a theory, is bad. Bad governance to be considered as one of the causes of all evil in our societies.
