Analytic framework
Finally, we can move from more output-oriented views of governance to consider it strictly in intellectual terms. That is, as well as being ‘something’, governance is a way of viewing the world of politics and government. It makes us focus attention on things that happen and the ways in which they happen. By so doing it moves the study of politics away from formal concerns and to some extent returns us to the classic question raised by Lasswell (1935) – ‘Who gets what?’