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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.
Contents
Part I. Public Service: Merit and Virtue
1: Melissa Lane: Guarding the Guardians: Plato and Constitutionalism for the Good of the Ruled
2: Joseph Chan: Confucian Perspectives on Good Governance and Regime Type: Historical Choices and Their Contemporary Legacy
Part II. Public Institutions: Power and Accountability
3: Mark Philp: Democracy and the Operational Integrity of Government
4: Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti: Office Accountability: The Open Texture of Public Institutional Normativity
Part III. Public Will: Compliance and Discretion
5: Chiara Cordelli: The Case for Administrative Co-Determination
6: Daniel Engster: Relational Discretion and Good Governance
Part IV. Public Control: Non-Domination and Responsiveness
7: Philip Pettit: State, Republic, and Good Government
8: Leah Downey: Good Self-Governance
Part V. Public Goods: Individual and Collective
9: Cass R. Sunstein: The Administrative State, Inside Out
10: Blake Emerson: Collective Rights and the Obligations of Good Government
Part VI. Public Trust: Loyalty and Purpose
11: Nikolas Kirby: Fiduciary Governance: Power Without Despotism
12: Paul B. Miller: Political Trust, Public Justification, and Judicial Office
Part VII. Experience: Explanation, Reasonableness, and Representation
13: Zeynep Pamuk: Explanation and Power: Governing Well with Algorithms
14: Joseph Heath: Reasonableness as a Quality of Good Government
15: Jane Mansbridge: Making Government Work: The Recursivity Response
