What is Good Government?
The Philosophy of Office, Institutions, and Administration
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 May 2026
- ISBN 9780198910466
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 21x156x234 mm
- Weight 644 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume brings together some of today's foremost political philosophers to explore the complex relationship between good government and other concepts fundamental to politics: justice, legitimacy, and the common good.
MoreLong description:
What is good government? The concept of 'good government' aims to set an ideal for how governments - and their constituent agents - should act, be structured, and held accountable. It promises a fundamental norm to guide the design of its offices and institutions and the administrative state. It is a concept central to contemporary development practice, public administration, and political science, but has largely been neglected in contemporary political philosophy. This, therefore, is the first edited volume specifically dedicated to the philosophy of good government. Bringing together some of today's foremost political philosophers, it explores the complex relationship between good government and other concepts fundamental to politics: justice, legitimacy, and the common good. Placing in conversation classical, modern, and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores themes such as the role of virtue, education, and ritual in governance; political realism and the role of accountability institutions; the virtues and vices of the administrative state; official discretion and public control of state institutions; public trust and the fiduciary conception of public office; and the importance of explanation, reasonableness, and representation in administrative decision-making.
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Part I. Public Service: Merit and Virtue
Guarding the Guardians: Plato and Constitutionalism for the Good of the Ruled
Confucian Perspectives on Good Governance and Regime Type: Historical Choices and Their Contemporary Legacy
Part II. Public Institutions: Power and Accountability
Democracy and the Operational Integrity of Government
Office Accountability: The Open Texture of Public Institutional Normativity
Part III. Public Will: Compliance and Discretion
The Case for Administrative Co-Determination
Relational Discretion and Good Governance
Part IV. Public Control: Non-Domination and Responsiveness
State, Republic, and Good Government
Good Self-Governance
Part V. Public Goods: Individual and Collective
The Administrative State, Inside Out
Collective Rights and the Obligations of Good Government
Part VI. Public Trust: Loyalty and Purpose
Fiduciary Governance: Power Without Despotism
Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office
Part VII. Experience: Explanation, Reasonableness, and Representation
Explanation and Power: Governing Well with Algorithms
Reasonableness as a Quality of Good Government
Making Government Work: The Recursivity Response
