This book was born out of a serious debate on the issues of governance and administration since the late 1990s. The popularity of the term governance over government and administration resulted in a proliferation of books, articles, and conference papers aimed at addressing a broader notion of government business with broad participation of the governed. Consequently, the concept of good governance appeared as a new term to negate the practice of bad governance, considered to be a characteristic of the traditional forms of government. Many international conferences have been organized with the theme of governance and good governance, funded and supported by transworld corporations, leading industrialized governments of the.
