From Government to Governance: Scenarios, horizons, and boundaries

Journal title RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL’AMMINISTRAZIONE
Author/s Andrea Borghini
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/4
Language Italian Pages 19 P. 19-37 File size 537 KB
DOI 10.3280/SA2011-004003
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The Author develops a critical perspective of the concept of Governance: in particular, focuses on the conceptual relationship between Nation State and Governance in order to show the limits of Governance processes. The dialectic of State Governance is applied to both the international scenario and the scenario of the theory of power. In the first, the Author utilizes the concept of Nation State as a key to understanding the failures of Global Governance. In the second scenario, introduces a Bourdieusian view of State as the holder of symbolic power, with the intention to bring out a new perspective on the concept of State and to make the concept of Symbolic Power a tool capable of revealing the authoritarian risks underlying the processes of Governance. The Author concludes with a brief analysis of the relationship between Governance and Foucault’s concept of Governmentality, the latter being useful in clarifying the reorganization and relocation of power in complex societies.

Keywords: State, <i>Governance</i>, governmentality

Andrea Borghini, Dal Governo alla <i>Governance</i>. Scenari, Orizzonti, Confini in "RIVISTA TRIMESTRALE DI SCIENZA DELL’AMMINISTRAZIONE" 4/2011, pp 19-37, DOI: 10.3280/SA2011-004003