International Relations Researches

International Relations Researches

Comparative and critical evaluation of types of supra-governance and network governance

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Khalilola Sardarnia
, Professor, Department of Political Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
10.22034/irr.2024.433844.2489
Abstract
In the past two decades, we have witnessed the emerging complications in the relations between the government and the society and the spread of emerging political, economic, and social crises and dissatisfaction with the classical state-oriented governance models. In such a context, pathology and providing suggestions for new models of governance have become necessary. This research is of a fundamental type with the purpose of critical-comparative evaluation of theoretical types related to supra-governance and network governance. The main question is, from the early years of the 2000s onwards, from a comparative perspective, what the types of extra-governance and network governance models have been proposed in the academic-academic sphere, followed by management and government practices, and how to be evaluated? In this article, the theories that make up supra-governance or a homogeneous network such as "interdependence", " Integration ", “Governability " and " Governmentality " are examined and critically evaluated. The findings of this study show that today more than in the past, we need new models of supra-governance and network governance to solve the serious challenges of current societies. All four theories with different angles pay attention to self-organizing networks as an integral part of modern governance processes. In general, academic debates and the increasing use of governance networks or supra-governance models have been a response to the failure of one-sided, government-oriented and hierarchical governance models and even market governance models since the 1970s The centralizedandplannedeffortsand methodsof governanceand bureaucraticcontrolshavebeen led tofailuresin satisfactorymanagement, failureto meet thegrowingdemandsof citizensand their political, socialandeconomic dissatisfaction
Keywords
supra-governance
network governance
Integration
Governability
Governmentality
 
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