L'IRRESISTIBILE ASCESA DI GOVERNANCE. UN MODELLO REGOLATIVO ALLA RICERCA DI UNA PROPRIA SPECIFICITÀ

The term «Governance» is frequently found in speeches and texts which, under different circumstances, refer to regulatory issues of the complex contemporary society and to the increasing frequency with which it organizes itself in Network structures. Hence, there is the need to attribute this word with a conceptual and explanatory substrate, to avoid the risks of indetermination and ambiguity. Obstacles to a synthetic definition of Governance firstly stem from the varied situations in which it is applied and from the identity requests of the social actors, which are increasing in frequency. Such difficulties are intrinsic to Governance, in that it is not specific from an autonomous viewpoint. In fact, this definition is reflectively and necessarily realized with its polar equivalent, the Government. The relationship of continuously reciprocal generation between the two regulatory bodies can, thus, be defined as complementary opposition. The relation described above also depends by the intersection that it generates, applying itself to the three fundamental forms of exchange, i.e. community, market, and politics. On such bases, it is possible to propose a classification of Governance in three applicative forms: Social-Corporate- and Political-Governance. The idea of Governance and the diversified features of its three forms can be then brought back to a unifying interpretation in the more general and deep cultural realm of circularity paradigm.