LIST OF PANELS

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If governance is defined as “the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised for the common good” (Kauffmann, 2005), if it pertains to the representativeness, the accountability (electoral, inter-institutional), the stability, the effectiveness, the quality and the procedural appropriateness in the use of such authority by those who are given a mandate to use it, then governance is a multidimensional entity and systems of governance can be mapped depending on how well or how poorly they perform on each of these dimensions of governance. The purpose of the present panel is twofold. First, the panel seeks to gather and present some evidence as to whether there is a distinct mode of governance in Asia that is clearly distinguished and distinguishable from modes of governance in other regions (Africa, Europe and the Americas). Second, in addition to paying attention to differences between regions, the panel seeks to investigate whether there are differences in terms of governance within the Asian region, that is the panel seeks to gather and present evidence of whether, depending on how individual countries perform in terms of representativeness, responsiveness, and responsibility, it is possible to identify different modes of governance in Asia. In doing so, the panels aims to contribute to furthering the scholarly understanding of governance with or without adjectives. By recognizing the multidimensional character of governance, by showing that the various dimensions of governance may vary independently of one another, and by mapping governance accordingly, how plural and diversified are the modes of governance in countries where governance is neither perfect nor failed