Question

Definition of basic concepts and terminologies in governance and public administration

Answer 1

The term governance has gained great usage in contemporary public
administration. Many theorists in the field believe that the term governance is an
organizing concept that guides administrators as administrative practices shift from
the bureaucratic State to what is called the “hollow State” or what Osborne and
Gaebler (1993)1
call “third-party government”. According to Frederickson and
Smith,2
“Governance refers to the lateral and inter-institutional relations in
administration in the context of the decline of sovereignty, the decreasing
importance of jurisdictional borders and a general institutional fragmentation”.
Frederickson and Smith assert further that, with more emphasis on governance, “the
administrative state is now less bureaucratic, less hierarchical and less reliant on
central authority to mandate action. Accountability for conducting the public’s
business is increasingly about performance rather than discharging a specific policy
goal with the confines of the law”.
The use of the terms governance and public administration gained
unprecedented momentum in both their quest and usage in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries. However, as the twenty-first century gets under way, there does
not seem to be a consensus as to what they mean. In a highly dynamic environment,
politically, socially, economically, and culturally, these terms mean different things
in different contexts.

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