I would like to make two remarks at this point. On the one hand, it is important
to emphasize that ‘mere’ democratic government is not the same as good governance.
In a certain sense, good governance is a wider category because its scope extends
beyond the public sector to non-state actors as well (i.e. members of the civil
society and market actors). On the other hand, good governance has not always been
associated with democratic governments. Historically, when the term ‘good governance’
was coined by the World Bank in the 1980ies, the Bank argued - due to its political
neutrality - that the examination of whether a government is democratic or not
falls outside its mandate. As a result, it focused only on the economic dimensions of
good governance and avoided on purpose the use of the term ‘government’ so as not
to infringe upon state sovereignty