Typically, the term has referred to the practice of government agencies' placing information and services within easy reach of the public on the Internet.
He said the practice of government ministers leaving parliament to take plum postings or related jobs had fostered distrust among citizens.
Nearly two centuries later, the Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas, praising the founders' commitment to freedom of speech, wrote: "The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information".
This saga looks more like the politics of the French Fourth Republic than the serious practice of government and it is especially disappointing and damaging on such an important issue – the place of Britain in Europe and the world.
This from a guy who just wrote a book called "The Waxman Report: How Congress Really Works," devoted to challenging the public's lack of enthusiasm for the daily practice of government.
The practice of government secretly collecting mobile data of its citizens, after all, wouldn't sound too out of place in China, where the state keeps a watchful eye on practically all virtual activities conducted by the public, from text messages to social media.
Howe, who was also a former foreign secretary and deputy prime minister under the late Baroness Thatcher, adds that the events of recent days, in which the prime minister has been forced to offer more and more to satisfy his Eurosceptic MPs, were "more like the politics of the French Fourth Republic than the serious practice of government".
I would wager that, in the practice of government, Cameron is doing what he wanted to do in opposition, but which his party would not let him: develop a set of policies that claim the centre ground while retaining a centre-right flavour.
Khosrowshahi also sat on a panel with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Stephen Goldsmith, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss Uber's new approach to partnering with cities.
The transparent accountability practice of government's implementation of trade policy measures and compliance of international treaties under the WTO context is an important aspect to avoid escalation of disputes on trade policy measures among trading partners.
