## Related Notes ### Governance 1. [[Governance is both a social process and a collection of norms and arrangements]] 2. [[Governance refers to the web of formal and informal institutions, rules, norms, and expectations which govern behaviour in societies and without which the very idea of a human society is impossible]] 3. [[global health governance will increasingly be determined by economic institutions with the principle concern not of health but of market liberalisation]] 4. [[Global health governance now is more about informal mechanisms between state and non-state negotiations. The governance space is now accessible by states and non-state actors, a condition Fidler called "open-source anarchy"]] 5. [[Global health governance is not a Habermasian ‘ideal speech’ situation in which the best argument wins out. Power matters, and outcomes are determined not only by the persuasiveness of a particular frame, but also by who is advancing that frame]] ### Government 1. [[Local government is often overlooked variable part of social and health policy]] 2. [[When the government, incl. G20 calls for another money to pledge, we must remember that during economic crisis, government and philanthropic spending alike are under pressure]] 3. [[markets work; governments don't]] 4. [[There's a disjuncture between the capacity of national governments to operate within a global economy given the increasing economic power of MNCs]] 5. [[where states were once the masters of markets, now it is the markets which, on many crucial issues, are the masters over the governments of states]] 6. [[The differences between Oxford Dictionary and Cambridge dictionary on politics emphasized on politics as either process (governance) or an arena (government)]]