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Good Governance: Concept and Context
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The pivotal aim of this book is to explain the creation, development, and impact of good governance from a conceptual, principal perspective and in the context of national administrative law. Three lines of reasoning have been worked out: developing the concept of good governance; specification of this concept by developing principles of good governance; and implementation of these principles of good governance on the national level. In this phase of further development of good governance, it is important to have a clear concept of good governance, presented in this book as the third cornerstone of a modern state, alongside the concepts of the rule of law and democracy. That is a rather new national administrative law perspective which is influenced by regional and international legal developments; thus, we can speak about good governance as a multilevel concept. But the question is: how is this concept of good governance further developed? Six principles of good governance (which in a narrower sense also qualify as principles of good administration) have been further specified in a systematic way, from a legal perspective. These are the principles of properness, transparency, participation, effectiveness, accountability, and human rights. Furthermore, the link has been made with integrity standards. The important developments of each of these principles are described on the national level in Europe, but also in countries outside Europe (such as Australia, Canada, and South Africa). This book gives a systematic comparison of the implementation of the principles of good governance between countries.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Addink, H.
- Affiliations
- Utrecht University (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Addink, Henk
- ORCID
- Addink, Henk
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2019-04-18
- OpenAlex
- W4242155877
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 154
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 23 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 10.87
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Administrative Law and Governance
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Public Administration and Governance
- Social Sciences › Law › Evolving Legal Systems and Governance
- Keywords
- good governance, governance principles, national administrative law, transparency, accountability, participation, effectiveness, properness, human rights, rule of law, democracy, multi-level governance, comparative administrative law
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