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hufty See discussions stats and author pro ?les for this publication at https www researchgate net publication Governance Exploring four approaches and their relevance to research Chapter January CITATIONS author Marc Hufty Graduate Institute of Internati

See discussions stats and author pro ?les for this publication at https www researchgate net publication Governance Exploring four approaches and their relevance to research Chapter January CITATIONS author Marc Hufty Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies PUBLICATIONS CITATIONS SEE PROFILE READS Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects Governance in health View project Governance View project All content following this page was uploaded by Marc Hufty on December The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded ?le Governance Exploring Four Approaches and Their Relevance to Research Marc Hufty Abstract Although governance is widely used in policy debates it has remained a fuzzy concept referring sometimes to theoretical approaches and sometimes to ideological stances From the point of view of many developing countries it connotes a set of ? recipes ? and constraints imposed by Western institutions This article explores how based on existing approaches the concept of governance could be developed into an analytical tool for the social and development sciences that does not fall prey to ideological connotations For this purpose the article presents what I consider to be the four most popular approaches to the concept of governance corporate governance global governance good governance and modern governance These approaches are compared and analysed in terms of both their gaps and their potential contributions to the analytical tool envisioned The criteria developed for this tool are that it should be suitable for analysing social dynamics at various levels in di ?erent societies and at di ?erent times and that there should be no limitation to the actors incorporated into the analysis Accordingly governance is delineated in the ?rst instance as the decision-making processes that take place whenever collective stakes lead to competition and cooperation Keywords Governance corporate governance global governance good governance modern governance North-South perspectives Research for Sustainable Development Foundations Experiences and Perspectives Introduction Governance has become one of the most widely used words in policy debates It has been everywhere for some time already in the publications of international and bilateral development aid organisations in the discourse of decision-makers and many other places Yet it is also one of the most fuzzy concepts currently in use It occurs in very general discourses as well as in specialised domains referring sometimes to theoretical approaches and sometimes to ideological stances For most people this is confusing The term may have a rather precise meaning in neo-institutional economics but from the point of view of developing countries especially in Africa Asia and South America it clearly connotes a set of ? recipes ? concerning structural adjustment and constraints imposed by Western institutions and is thus heavily laden with values The main question to be answered here is whether or not the concept of governance has a place in the social sciences toolbox and if so how to avoid any ideological connotations In the context of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR North-South a group of researchers at the