Meta Governance: An Assessment

All over the world, local, regional and national governments are exploring various governance approaches ranging from public-private partnerships to civic engagement and citizen participation. All of these meet the interdependency character of complex decision making process. In the governance literature, different forms of governance arrangements are seen as promising solution for managing such complex situation and indicate that it has become impossible for a government to rule alone, but it means that governance must be performed differently. Governance requires various forms of regulation of self-regulation, or-as the governance theorists denote it – meta-governance. In fact, meta governance opens the door for development of a new strong model in policy making. The aim of this article is to reflect on how meta-governance as a model for societal governance affects the decision making from a democratic perspective.