|
|
This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
|
This article needs attention from an expert in politics. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. WikiProject Politics may be able to help recruit an expert. (December 2015)
|
|
|
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
|
(Learn how and when to remove this template message)
|
| Part of a series on |
| Governance |
| Models |
- Collaborative
- Good
- Multistakeholder
- Open-source
- Private
- Self
|
| By level |
|
|
| By field |
- Climate
- Clinical
- Corporate
- Cultural
- Data
- Earth system
- Ecclesiastical
- Environmental
- Higher education
- Information
- Network
- Ocean
- Political party
- Project
- Security sector
- Self
- Simulation
- Service-oriented architecture
- Soil
- Technology
- Transnational
- Website
|
| Measures |
- World Governance Index
- Sustainable Governance Indicators
|
| Related topics |
- Chief governance officer
-
Governance, risk management
and compliance
- E-governance
-
Environmental, social and
corporate governance
- Market governance mechanism
|
|
|
Self-governance, self-government, or autonomy, is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization.
It may refer to personal conduct or family units or to larger scale activities including professions, industry bodies, religions, political units (usually referred to as local government), including autonomous regions or others within nation-states that enjoy some sovereign rights. It falls within the larger context of governance and principles such as consent of the governed, and may involve non-profit organizations and corporate governance.
It can be used to describe a person or persons or a group being able to exercise all of the necessary functions of power without intervention from any authority that they cannot themselves alter. In addition to describing personal autonomy, "self-rule" is also associated with contexts in which there is the end of colonial rule, absolute government or monarchy as well as demands for autonomy by religious, ethnic or geographic regions which perceive themselves as being unrepresented or underrepresented in a national government. It is, therefore, a fundamental tenet of republican government and democracy as well as of nationalism. Gandhi's term "swaraj" (see also "satygraha") is a branch of this self-rule ideology.
Another major proponent of self-rule, when a government's actions are immoral, is Thoreau.
Generally when self-governance of nation-states is discussed, it is called national sovereignty, which is an important concept in international law.
Means of self-governance
This article focuses on the self-governance of professions, industries including unions, and formal or informal political units including ethnic or ethical 'nations' not defined by national borders, and of religious organizations, which have professional and political elements. There are many historical examples of such organizations or groups, and some, e.g. the Roman Catholic Church, the Freemasons, the Iroquois Confederacy, have histories going back centuries, including vast bodies of precedent and shared culture and knowledge.
A means of self-governance usually comprises at least the following:
- an ethical code that outlines acceptable behavior within the unit or group, e.g. the Hippocratic Oath of doctors, or established codes of professional ethics.
- some set of criteria whereby an outside legal code or political authority can be called in – unless the group itself opposes such authority, e.g., organized crime groups which are self-governing almost by definition.
- a means of ensuring that outside authority does not become involved unless and until these criteria are satisfied, usually a code of silence regarding the activities of insiders when conversing with outsiders.
- a process for registering and resolving grievances, e.g. medical malpractice, union procedures, and for achieving closure regarding them.
- the power to discipline its own members, ranging from fines and censure up to and including killing them, e.g. the Irish Republican Army, mafia or Tong groups, and militaries (see Uniform Code of Military Justice)
- a means of selecting or electing leaders, e.g. a voting system, gang wars, identification of divinely selected individuals (e.g. Dalai Lama discovery).
- a means of controlling parties, factions, tendencies or other sub-groups that seek to break away and form new entities that would compete with the group or organization that already exists.
References
- Bird, C. (2000). "The Possibility of Self-Government". The American Political Science Review, 94(3), 563–577.
See also
|
Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Internet Governance |
- Self-governing colony
- Anarchism
- Autonomy
- Bioregional democracy
- Interdependence
- Leave Us Kids Alone
- Lord of the Flies (book)
- Reciprocity (social and political philosophy)
- Responsible government
- Secession
- Self-determination
- Self-management
- Sociocracy
- Swaraj
- Aundh Experiment
- United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories
- Urban autonomy
- United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization
- United Nations Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
|
Autonomous types of first-tier subdivision administration
|
| Federalism |
- Asymmetric federalism
- Confederation
- Corporative federalism
- Dual federalism
- Ethnic federalism
- Federacy
- Federal monarchy
- Federal republic
- Federated state
- Federation
- Fiscal federalism
- Symmetric federalism
|
| Unitary state |
- Devolution
- Regional state
|
| See also |
- Constituent state
- Autonomy
- Decentralization
- Home rule
- Multinational state
- Personal union
- Subsidiarity
- Supranationalism
- Tribal sovereignty
|