The Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development's (IGSD) mission is to promote just and sustainable societies and to protect the environment by advancing the understanding, development, and implementation of effective, accountable and
democratic systems of governance for sustainable development.
This translates as the adoption of a Western - style liberal
democratic system of governance.
Mr. Mahama explained that, his administration could not retrieve the money because he could not have acted arbitrarily since Ghana operates
a democratic system of governance.
Not exact matches
Instead, we argue for a
democratic «war
of position», advocating institutional reforms that can be secured in the current context that will nonetheless advance incrementally, but irreversibly, the
democratic quality
of our political
system and
governance of our public institutions.
A close analysis
of these indicators makes clear that dignity and a dignity - based model
of governance do not necessarily overlap with liberal
democratic values and
systems of government, where exclusion and injustice can run rampant.
We applaud successive administrations and political actors, including the various political parties, and indeed, the entire Ghanaian citizenry for keeping faith with the 1992 Constitution, which ushered in the 4th Republic and has undergirded our
democratic governance system and practices in the last quarter
of a century.
While
democratic and open governments are held up as the best
system and dictatorships are frowned upon, I wish to state with emphasis, that there is no «one size fits all»
system of governance.
The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy
of the global polity as an outer layer
of a nested
system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places to build processes
of democratic global
governance for managing our collective affairs on this planet.
Hence the question
of equality and understanding the natural
system can be solved on the basis
of constitutional provisions, which are the part
of the
governance of the
democratic states.
However, to be
democratic, it would be necessary, however, that the
governance of these
systems count on the active participation
of the population and civil society organizations in formulating goals (performance standard) to be pursued, as well as in policy or decision rules seeking to correct deviations between what was planned and carried out.
Fifteen years ago, our book, Charter Schools in Action, foresaw this innovative
governance and delivery
system for education as a hopeful path to stronger student achievement and as an engine «to recreate the
democratic underpinnings
of public education and rejoin schools to a vigorous civil society.»
He has insisted that we can not make our political
system work unless people share a sense
of the importance
of responsible,
democratic self -
governance and have the intellectual and moral traits such
governance requires.
An immediate end to the current UFT support for mayoral control and its replacement by a
democratic system of local
governance run by communities, parents, and educators.
We must wage an unequivocal fight for a
democratic and responsive educational
system, overturning mayoral control and resisting corporate «education reform,» which have disenfranchised communities from the
governance of their schools.
(1) that decision - making groups include sunset clauses, (2) that school
systems support administrators embarking on the path
of democratic governance, and (3) that any restructuring effort maintain a primary focus on enhancing the teaching / learning process.
However, my main concern, which is the driving concern behind this book, is the larger question
of the negative impact that the privatization
of public dispute resolution processes has on
systems of democratic governance.