Governance failure

Jessop argues for conceiving governance as a provider of flexibility for decision-making structures opposed to rigid state bureaucracy or market laws. From this approach failures would equate to failures of the governance structure. According to him new constellations of governance may compensate for state failure.

Peters and Pierre state that it is the continuous task of government to adapt to growing complexity.{{cite book|last1=Peters|first1=B. Guy|last2=Pierre|first2=Jon|title=Comparative Governance: Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing|date=2016|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781316738177|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TFblDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA12|accessdate=6 July 2017|language=en}}

Dixon and Dogan write that constructive governance discourses are creative opportunities for people with disparate governance perspectives to find solutions to threatening governance failure.{{cite journal|last1=Dixon|first1=John|last2=Dogan|first2=Rhys|title=Hierarchies, Networks and Markets: Responses to Societal Governance Failure|journal=Administrative Theory & Praxis|date=1 May 2002|volume=24|issue=1|pages=175–196|doi=10.1080/10841806.2002.11029344|s2cid=147158857|issn=1084-1806}}

Governance failure may also refer to what can also be described as policy failures − the effectiveness, efficiency, and resilience of specific policies. A frequently mentioned example of a policy failure is the War on Drugs.{{cite web |title=End the Drug War |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/03/20/end-the-drug-war/ |publisher=Foreign Policy |access-date=12 July 2017}}{{cite book |last1=Friesendorf |first1=Cornelius |title=US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Displacing the Cocaine and Heroin Industry |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134123940 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vxx9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 |access-date=12 July 2017 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Peter |first1=Andreas |author-link=Peter Andreas |date=22 June 2003 |title=A Tale of Two Borders: The U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada Lines After 9/11 |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6d09j0n2 |journal=Center for Comparative Immigration Studies |language=en |access-date=12 July 2017}}{{cite web |title=Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs: A Policy Failure But a Political Success |date=11 October 2013 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/21802/Ronald%20Reagan's%20War%20on%20Drugs-A%20Policy%20Failure%20But%20a%20Political%20Success.pdf |access-date=12 July 2017}}{{cite journal |last1=Bagley |first1=Bruce Michael |title=US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs: Analysis of a Policy Failure |journal=Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs |date=1988 |volume=30 |issue=2/3 |pages=189–212 |doi=10.2307/165986 |jstor=165986}} Policy failure can be due to misuse of or inefficient investment in science. {{Cite journal |last1=Vuong |first1=Quan-Hoang |date=2018 |title=The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies |journal=Nature Human Behaviour |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=5 |doi=10.1038/s41562-017-0281-4|pmid=30980055 |s2cid=46878093 |doi-access=free}}

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• Active citizenship
• Group decision-making
• Evidence-based policy
• Resource allocation
• Collaborative decision-making software
• Online participation
• Legitimacy (political)
• Global governance failure
• Impact assessment
• Systems theory
• Structural fix
• Collective problem solving
• Privatization
• Market failure
• Adaptation

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• Criticism of democracy
• Criticism of capitalism
• Market fundamentalism
• Political finance

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