Abstract

TOURNIER, Charles. THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNORSHIP IN POLITICAL SCIENCE. Pap.polit. [online]. 2007, vol.12, n.1, pp.63-92. ISSN 0122-4409.

In this paper, the author looks for to give a cross-sectional vision of the governance concept and to try to determine the logic that characterizes it, considering that is a notion that has been mainly the object of a critical literature. After remembering the origin of the governance concept, the author successively deals with the subject of the governance like new conception of the territories, of the crisis of the governance to the light of the crisis of the democracy and the principles of the governance, before concluding on the controversies relative to the governance. It makes a precise scan, as much of the "analytical uses" of the governance concept, these are those that try to develop with her a tool of understanding of changes in the art to govern, like of this "normative uses", in the sense to determine the conditions necessary for "good to govern" (good governance). This ambivalence of the use of the concept of governance and one reviews critic and rigorous of literature (classics, compilers, analysts and "practitioners") it allows the author to develop the thesis according to which in political science, it is impossible to find an author who has structured the debate on the governance. Like conclusion, the author indicates that the governance shows the same imprecision that the democracy, because it does consensus on its necessity but not on which it is. It is by the way a "word suitcase" but that helps politicians as to investigators to be understood as much.

Keywords : governance; democracy; political science; analytical uses; normative uses.

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