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The traditional descriptive style of news reporting has shifted to an interpretive style that empowers journalists by giving them more control over content. One consequence is news coverage that focuses on the negative aspects of politics, contributing to the public's dissatisfaction with its political leaders & institutions, making it more difficult for officials to govern effectively. It is argued that the news media's version of reality is exceedingly narrow & cannot be justified by either the journalists' knowledge of political relationships or their position in the political system. A model of reporting that subordinates the voice of the journalist & aims for a more balanced portrayal of the workings of the political system is suggested. Adapted from the source document.

There has been a quiet revolution in news reporting during the past few decades. The traditional descriptive style of reporting has given way to an interpretive style that empowers journalists by giving them more control over content. One consequence is a form of news coverage that focuses on the negative aspects of politics. This development contributes to the public's dissatisfaction with its political leaders and institutions and makes it more difficult for officials to govern effectively. The news media's version of reality is exceedingly narrow and cannot be justified by either the journalists' knowledge of political relationships or their position in the political system. The problem would be lessened by a model of reporting that subordinates the voice of the journalist and aims for a more balanced portrayal of the workings of the political system.

This paper examined the link between bad governance and perpetuation of insecurity in Nigeria. Using theoretical arguments, the paper holds that, the current security challenges that bedeviled Nigeria are attributable to injustice, corruption and selfish governance by the leadership class. Since Nigeria's return to democracy in 1999, after a lengthy military rule that lasted for almost three decades, incidences of ethnic, communal, religious and resource conflicts continue to persist across most part of the country. This is aggravated by the apparent failure of the leadership to address key issues affecting the country such as poverty alleviation, employment generation, resource allocation, infrastructural development etc. Thus, the paper concludes that tackling insecurity in Nigeria is an enormous task, but one which is not impossible. Therefore, Nigerians must unite and the governing class must develop a strong political will and total commitment to fighting insecurity. Jamilu Ibrahim Mukhtar | Aminu Abdullahi | Muazu Abdullahi Ishaq | Suleiman Mohammed Isyaku "Bad Governance and Insecurity in Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-6 , October 2017, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5814.pdf

In this book, Vladimir Gel'man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders of these countries establish and maintain rules, norms, and practices that serve their own self-interests. Gel'man considers bad governance as a primarily agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon. He addresses the issue of causes and mechanisms of bad governance in Russia and beyond from a different scholarly optics, which is based on a more general rationale of state-building, political regime dynamics, and policy-making. He argues that although these days, bad governance is almost universally perceived as an anomaly, at least in developed countries, in fact human history is largely a history of ineffective and corrupt governments, while the rule of law and decent state regulatory quality are relatively recent matters of modern history, when they emerged as side effects of state-building. Indeed, the picture is quite the opposite: bad governance is the norm, while good governance is an exception. The problem is that most rulers, especially if their time horizons are short and the external constraints on their behavior are not especially binding, tend to govern their domains in a predatory way because of the prevalence of short-term over long-term incentives. Contemporary Russia may be considered as a prime example of this phenomenon. Using an analysis of case studies of political and policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Gel'man discusses the logic of building and maintenance of politico-economic order of bad governance in Russia and paths of its possible transformation in a theoretical and comparative perspective.

Vladimir Gel'man har skrevet en fin bog om dårlig styring i den offentlige sektor i Rusland (The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia). Gel'mans bog er velskrevet, og den præsenterer teori om governance og politiske systemer, som er illustreret ved både nutidige (russiske) og historiske (sovjetiske) eksempler.
Vladimir Gel'man has written a good book about bad governance in the public sector in Russia (The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia). Gel'man's book is well written and it presents theory of governance and political systems illustrated by examples from contemporary Russia and from the USSR.

Very few of the world's most rapidly developing countries have enjoyed good governance during their periods of rapid growth - China is only the most recent example. This is not a coincidence. Bad governance is, in some cases, good for development. This has broad implications for the design of effective foreign aid programmes. (Survival / SWP)