ABSTRACT
Broadly construed, governance centers on consolidating authoritative oversight with respect to the depth, dynamics, and direction of change. By nature, then, governance is highly context dependent. It expresses a working coherence of concretely arrayed legitimacies, powers, and patterns of responsible supervision. But precisely because governance centers on managing or orienting change, it is also necessarily vested in the processes of creativity and conservation that result in the transformation of context. Governance, in short, is necessarily reflexive.
