Presentation for Kororoit Institute's International Symposium and Workshop - Living Spaces for Change: Socio-technical knowledge of cities and regions. 29 February – 2 March 2012, North Melbourne, Australia
5. Successfully governing the environment we
live in is difficult!
Government is the exercise of political authority over the
actions, affairs, etc, of a political unit, people, etc, as well as
the performance of certain functions for this unit or body;
the action of governing; political rule and administration.
In other words, government is the application of
socio/political constraints over individual action by some
higher level entity above the individual self.