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Programs

    Legitimacy and the deep-rootedness of power


    Co-production of public goods and multi-actor partnerships


    The reform of Public Institutions


    Public affairs training


    Governance Assessment


    ’Governance’ : conceptions and discourses

    The term governance is defined and understood today in a variety of, at times, contradictory ways. The IRG aims to understand how this term has evolved within institutions from the local to the global level, within the institute there is a marked emphasis on the evolution of the notion within international organisations who have pressed for its emergence for the past 20 years. The Institute plans to initiate debate about the use of this term in diverse and even opposed ideological contexts. The IRG also emphasises the conceptualisation, interpretations and cultural misunderstandings that such a term comes up against during its use in cultural traditions as diverse as the Chinese empire, the Arab world, Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa.