A Search for Good Governance: Towards the Sustainable Governance Model

The issue of good governance was first introduced by the World Bank at the end of 1990s. After unsuccessful implementation of economic adjustments policies or the Washington Consensus in some countries, the World Bank concluded that since governments in those countries lack necessary conditions, they are unable to act successfully in implementing the recommendations of this Bank and freeing the prices. It is in fact the first stage of formation and emergence of good governance thought. It must be noted that the good governance paradigm has changed into the dominant paradigm in the development thoughts. Considering the subject of governance in the development issues has been due to a series of factors such as failure in previous development plans, expansion of attention to the institutions in the economic, social, and political analyses, knowledge on the importance of political factors in developing the countries, economists’ conclusion on the failure of some neoclassical assumptions and some other factors such as the fall of communism. However, this strategy too, like other international organization’s plans has been associated with shortages; so far several criticisms have been put forward. This article studies the different dimensions of good governance, explains criticisms of it as well as its shortages and introduces a substitute solution. The alternative solution in this article is sustained governance model. For this reason, the main question of this article is: “What are the deficits in good governance model and which model could replace it”. The hypothesis of this article includes: good governance has been introduced by the World Bank as a method for achieving development; however, different countries are facing challenges and shortcomings in its implementation; the source of good governance is economy and economic development; sustained governance could be discussed as a model to overcome the shortages of good governance; and the model is formed by the combination of the development paradigm as a brain tool; and good governance as an approach to make governance operational. The research methodology is descriptive- analytical method and the method used in data collection is literature review. The theoretical framework of this research is good governance.