The latest post by New Zealand political commentator Chris Trotter has an interesting footnote:
The use of the word governance – as opposed to "government" – by liberal democrats is deliberate. It denotes not decisive power, but rational administrative process. Governance is what happens when the possibility of radical – i.e. system-threatening – change has been taken off the table.
This is perhaps the best explanation of the use of the word 'governance' that I have seen yet.
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Hmm
"The" Government is thought of as the elected officials. Governance is the actions performed by the worker bees of the bureaucracy that is created to do the day-to-work of executing the governments decisions.
I think that after a while, the "governance" becomes bigger than the government. Happens in all sorts of ideological systems and is similar to barnacles on a ship.