"rational governance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to any form of skillful and judicious management of a system or organization. For example, "The key to success in this organization is to implement rational governance with clear set of guidelines."
It takes the political skill of a Roosevelt to uphold the liberal value of rational governance in the midst of a populist storm.
And all of this makes rational governance impossible.
Their performance over the last two decades -- not to mention in this election -- does not augur well for rational governance.
I know Israel acts very improperly sometimes, their extending presence in the West Bank is an affront to the ideals of rational governance and neighborly consideration, members of the Netanyahu administration are veritable caricatures of bulls in the china shops of diplomacy, and that there are still issues of misconduct out of Gaza 2009 to be reckoned with, but make up your mind already.
(Graduate students register for 227A). The role of autonomy, principled rational self-governance, in Kant's account of the norms to which human beings are answerable as moral agents, citizens, empirical inquirers, and religious believers.
Indeed, if J. B. Schneewind is correct, Reid and Kant were unique among the moderns inasmuch as that they conceived of morality primarily in terms of rational self-governance (see Schneewind 1998).
What is important is not the outcome for the person but rather the "culpable failure" on the part of the agent, including the failure to respect a future person's "value as capable of rational self-governance" by way of failing to take "risk-managing" measures (including, e.g, pre-conceptual genetic testing) on behalf of that future person (Kumar 2003, 104 114).
His honors thesis project, "Modernity, Utopia and the State: Contextualizing the Construction of Mexico's Conjunto Urbano Nonoalco-Tlatelolco" delves into this problematic by assessing the relationship between urban planning and so-called "rational" forms of governance.
Democracy, which is rule by the people (demos means "people"), by a mere majority, has never guaranteed citizens a rational, rights-respecting governance.
The planning department had been set up against the backdrop of fresh scientific, political and also media interest in a "modern" and "rational" form of governance.
But as behavior has become the 21st century's killer app, the coldly rational operating system of governance no longer computes.
