Issues of Governance in Contemporary Democracy

IWASAKI Masahiro

doi:10.14836/ssi.4.2_55

<p>This paper aims to consider about the issues of governance in contemporary democracies. I presented several comments to three paper givers at the academic symposium on the “socio-informatics of governance.” I am here concerned with the key points of governance, that is, risk, inspection and accountability. Over the past few decades, a considerable number of studies about the “governance” have been conducted on the fields of the social science. Especially, academic concern with political and/or public governance has been growing for the last two decades. Traditionally, political science has dealt with the problem of governing. However, I do not emphasize that political science is a master science on the “governance.” The concept of governance also deals with the problem of governing. It is useful to join a discussion about the “socio-informatics of governance” from the view of political science. The critical question is how to explore the working of governance in democracies. In order to consider a relation between socio-informatics and political science, it is necessary to understand the definition of governance, approaches of governance, three key points about governance, and possibility of the “socio-informatics of governance.” The “socio-informatics of governance” will become a coupling device between socio-informatics and political science. It will offer a useful suggestion to consider the present situation of democracy.</p>

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