Basic elements of good governance

Question 1

What are the basic elements of good governance?

Answer 1

Accountability
Predictability
Transparency
Participation

Question 2

This element of good governance involves making public officials accountable and responsive. This may involve establishing criteria to measure performance of public officials as well as institutionalizing mechanisms to ensure that standards are met.

Answer 2

Accountability

Question 3

This element of good governance encompasses the existence of laws, regulations, and policies to regulate society, and the fair and consistent application of these. Key dimensions include establishing and sustaining appropriate legal and institutional arrangements, observing and upholding the rule of law, and maintaining consistency of public policiess.

Answer 3

Predictability

Question 4

This element of good governance captures the availability of information to the general public, and clear government rules, regulations, and decisions. This may involve ensuring access to accurate and timely information about the economy and government policies.

Answer 4

Transparency

Question 5

This element of good governance aims to enhance people’s access to and influence on public policy processes. Key dimension includes undertaking development for and by the people.

Answer 5

Participation

Question 6

Good governance entails

Answer 6

A strong state
Democratic forms of engagement

Question 7

This refers to the realm of organized social life that is open, voluntary, self-generating, and largly self-supporting, autonomous from state, and bound by a legal order or set of shared rules.

Answer 7

Civil society

Question 8

What are the characteristics of civil society?

Answer 8

Intermediary entity, standing between the private sphere and the state
Concerned with public rather than private ends
Plural and diverse

Question 9

What are the democratic roles of civil society?

Answer 9

As a counterweight to the state
As an actor in processes of political socialization
Provide s channels for the articulation, aggregation, and representations of interest

Question 10

What are the limits of the civil society?

Answer 10

Questions about internal structure and character
Autonomy from the state