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, loc. 238