{"id":31821,"key":"Governance","title":"Governance","latest":{"id":1206254,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T19:48:11Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Transparency significantly improves the relationship between citizens and government, and helps to prevent corruption. Modern communications technology (internet and mobile phones) makes much greater transparency possible.\n\n[[Institutional strengthening]] is an attempt to improve governance through improving the organizations that participate in governing.\n\n[[Governance as a condition of aid]] is a recent question in debates about the [[effectiveness of aid]].\n\nThere are two main types of governments: those who know they're in charge and those who don't. The latter I refer to as self-organizing.\n\n* self-organizing: leads to either a meritocracy or democracy when fully developed depending on the composition of the collective\n** adhocracy: governance \"as needed\". This includes anarchy, laissez-faire, and several others..\n** do-ocracy: governance by those \"who show up\": libertarian societies...\n* non-self-organizing: eventually leads to either a oppressive dictatorship or stagnant bureaucracy if not cross-checked by other mechanisms.\n** hopefully-benevolent dictator: elected leaders, monarchies, oligarchs.\n** bureaucracies: committees of elected citizens or composed of stakeholders.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Governance]]\n[[Category:Principles of development]]"}