Governance without government

Form of governance

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Governance without government is a form of governance which uses non-governmental means of government. It is a paradigm opposing  modern democracy. Modern democracy uses democratic procedures and institutions, including legislation and communicative rationality, whereas governance without government uses  laws of nature instead of legislation, and one-way communication instead of dialogue.

Governance without government relates to managed democracy, and to inverted totalitarianism, dismantling public institutions and giving  power to institutions where  democratic claims are not valid, e.g. big corporations and  secret societies.

## Studies in governance without government[edit]

### Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri[edit]

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri describe governance without government as the method of governing an empire, by which they mean the current world-system based on Friedmanite economics and military power. Thus governance without government uses governmental agencies to promote itself.[1]

### Larry Catá Backer[edit]

Larry Catá Backer describes the organization of economics within multinational enterprise and in global production chains as the basis for governance that in some respects displaces the traditional organization of politics in government within states.[2]

## See also[edit]

* Biopolitics
* Nudge theory
* Negarchy
* Post-modern
* Chicago economics
* Regulatory agency
* Polycentric law

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio: Empire.
2. ^ Backer, Larry Catá: "Governance Without Government: An Overview," in Beyond Territoriality: Transnational Legal Authority in an Age of Globalization 87-123 (Günther Handl, Joachim Zekoll, Peer Zumbansen, editors, Leiden, Netherlands & Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff, 2012).

## Further reading[edit]

* G., Carayannis, Elias (2012). Institutional learning and knowledge transfer across epistemic communities : new tools of global governance. Pirzadeh, Ali., Popescu, Denisa. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. p. 171-174. ISBN 9781461415510. OCLC 765949047.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)