Governance analytically displaces the state as the center of rule

Evidence

The United Nation’s account of “good governance” confirms this and adds another twist. There, “governance” is described as “the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are implemented or not.” It notes further that governance involves formal as well as informal actors and structures — these include the media, the military, corporations, organized crime, and political parties, among others. Thus, as an analytical term, “governance” signifies the decentering of the state and other centers of rule and tracks in its place the specifically modern dispersal of socially organizing powers throughout the order and of powers “conducting” and not only constraining or overtly regulating the subject. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 238

Categorization

• DEFINE: Governance decenters the state as analytical term — includes even organized crime among rule-shaping actors.
• XREF: connects to: Governance by incentives and benchmarks replaces top-down law and rule — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 56; Governance displaces the rule of law with business instruments — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 137; Governance only became neoliberalism’s administrative form after converging with it — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 232 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Governance vocabulary displaces the vocabulary of power from organized life. #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 249