GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, AT THE END OF THE MODERN STATE Cover Image

GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, AT THE END OF THE MODERN STATE
GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, AT THE END OF THE MODERN STATE

Author(s): Cutberto HERNANDEZ-LEGORRETA
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Education, Civil Society, Governance, Sociology
Published by: Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative (SNSPA)
Keywords: Horizontal governance; good governance; civil society organizations; democratic innovation; policy administration;

Summary/Abstract: The exercise of politics among its actors vindicates the citizen role of the population in today's societies and it gives the ability to participate politically within the State. From the perspective of international financial agents —as financial organizations or banking entities— such participation is settled since some systems, such as governance, are adopted, and it implies attention and solution to social and political demands. Governance involves running politics on behalf of a better government, re-signifying the concept of democracy from and for the market economy perspective, through democratic innovation practices. For its part, the civil society organization (CSO), in terms of governance, is understood as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It implies being incorporated into the dynamics of the administration of political work in an apparent horizontality within its actors, where its mechanisms operate equally by government, business and civil society. This participation scheme seeks to justify it from liberal democracy, by creating mechanisms and institutionalizing it. Methodologically it allows to understand its dynamics within the governance space. Its existence and need to take control of the policy is reviewed by pushing it into a new representation by incorporating concepts such as horizontal governance and good governance, used to legitimize this new way of administering political work. This process is legitimized by creating the conditions to justify new mechanisms of control through the institutionalization of democracy with concepts that strengthen it such is the case of democratic innovation in which its first form is precisely governance.

  • Issue Year: 13/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 149-177
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English