CAN GOOD GOVERNANCE BE SIMPLIFIED FOR PAKISTAN?

Abstract

Going by Rousseau’s hypothesis, a state is formed through a [hypothetical] social
contract between those who govern and the governed. In this contract, the governed
voluntarily give up some inalienable rights to the state e.g. equality, self-defense, and the
use of force and, in return the state underwrites the provision of these rights of its
citizens as the sole duty of the state. And, to do so, the governed empower the state to
use force on their behalf. In brief, therefore, governance is the function that ensures
equal justice to all citizens. It is the failure of the state to fulfill this undertaking that
initiates all ills in the state. This paper hypothesizes that the degree to which a state
stands in performing, or failing, its sole duty is directly proportional to the quantity and
quality of the justice it provides or fails to provide. And therefrom flows the extent of
corruption and unrest that corruption produces.