© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008. `Governance¿ has, allegedly, taken pre-eminence over `government¿ because of the concept¿s capacity to `cover the whole range of institutions and relationships involved in the process of governing¿ in a manner that `links the political system with its environment, and may complete the project of making political science more policy-relevant¿ (Peters and Pierre, 2000: 1). Notwithstanding the diversity of governance scholarship, the term has become a useful metaphor for a series of recognised trends in contemporary government behaviour concerning policy architecture, policy process, issues of accountability and the role of the state.