'ineffectual governance' is a word that is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which the government or group in power is ineffective or inefficient in its duties. For example: The poor economy is a result of ineffectual governance which has left many citizens feeling disenfranchised.
The president's administration has been widely criticized for ineptness, poor or ineffectual governance, and alleged corruption.
Some of the most stubborn and important scourges they face — ineffectual governance, deep-rooted corruption and the lack of a functioning judicial system — the report barely glanced at.
But under ineffectual governance, particularly in the last three years, a tough country is in danger of degenerating into a soft state.
The unrest is the latest upheaval to rock the troubled central African country, which has been plagued by multiple wars and weakened by ineffectual governance for decades.
Members of her government said they hoped an electoral mandate would elevate her authority, ending a period of weakness and ineffectual governance in the face of the calamitous ethnic unrest and political turmoil.
The Kyrgyz government badly wanted an electoral mandate to elevate its authority, ending a period of weakness and ineffectual governance in the face of the calamitous ethnic unrest and political turmoil.
Their government was ineffectual and very violent.
On the contrary, it is the United Nations that has lost influence with the United States as a result of its years of tolerance of, and governance by, dictatorial and corrupt governments, its gross inefficiencies and bureaucratic inertia and its status as a bloated, ineffectual debating society with no capability, or even desire, to see its edicts enforced.
By comparison, American government looked sluggish and ineffectual.
Even air attacks that are ineffectual in deposing the group can make impossible their governance of occupied territory -- the group's main goal, in contrast to that of al Qaeda, which has a primary objective of attacking the United States and is thus a bigger threat.
Gordon Brown's rages are well known among the small circle in which he operates, are deeply destructive to good governance, and are a key to understanding why this man's government has been so unco-ordinated, unhappy and ineffectual in so many ways.
