The crisis of governance and modernity : exploring its nature from a moral perspective

Abstract EN

The objective of this paper is to understand the complex relationship between the concepts of governance and modernity.

modernity created a crisis that inhibits achieving goals of governance in its both political and economic terms.

the problem of governance can be understood from the arguments put forward by carl schmitt in his concept of central domain‖.

he explained that contemporary human life is governed by the economic logic that describes human behaviour and responsibility as neutral to things and actions.

in fact, many scholars have striven to rethink the nature of govern-ance and its limits.

modernity has created its own moral patterns in accordance with the dominant models of governance.

governance itself has been transformed from a moral system of responsibility and transparency to just mere procedures to overcome con-straints in controlling a society.

some scholars believe that the problem of corruption derives from lack of moral disposition that dominate ruling elites‖ behaviour.

this paper examines works of selected scholars in order to understand the relationship between modernity and governance and concludes that there is a need to rethink morality in un-derstanding governance more than just think in restructuring of a range of legal and administrative procedure.

there is a need to think radically about the nature of the cur-rent moral problem and its latent implications for governance.