Framework and guidance
Plain Governance™
An approach to designing, explaining, and assessing the arrangements for the exercise of power within a group, organisation, or society.
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Read the framework
Understand the approach, principles, and concepts.
Apply the framework
Find guidance for a role, arrangement, decision, or policy.
Case studies
Examine an arrangement and compare your reasoning.
Seven sections
The framework
Read the sections in order
or select a topic.
The approach
Purpose, objectives, method, and limitations.
Principles
Six principles for understanding and assessing governance arrangements.
Key concepts
Definitions and simple sentence patterns.
Connections
How governance relationships connect within an arrangement.
Assessing an arrangement’s application
Seven stages for examining an act under a governance arrangement.
Decision-making arrangements
Nine requirements and a decision map.
Writing policies
Purpose, provisions, structure, and use.
Assessing governance arrangements
Plain Governance connects an account of what arrangements are supposed to achieve with an assessment of whether they are appropriate in the circumstances. The assessment also considers how they operate or are likely to operate.