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Governance is the whole mechanism of social power transmitted by norms and other regularities.
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Governance is the body of knowledge and set of techniques used by, or on behalf of, those who govern.
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Governance is ideally considered as the allowing of things to happen, the shaping of events as they come, the stepping out of the way and letting the tao speak for itself.
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