"tool of governance" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to any method of governing, controlling, or influencing a group or organization. For example: The company implemented a new tool of governance to help ensure that all employees abide by safety regulations.
Thus, from the Shang dynasty oracle bones to the products of the modern printing press, culture in the form of written works has been a key instrument in the development of political thought and a tool of governance.
It became institutionalized in the early decades of the twentieth century, coinciding with the growing stature and professionalization of journalism and the rise of public relations as a tool of governance.
2 10 Interventions to improve medication safety take numerous forms, 11 14 with significant efforts in recent years to encourage prioritisation of this safety issue across the English National Health Service (NHS). 3 10 15 Performance indicators are an established tool of governance applied at macro-level (national), meso-level (organisational) and micro-level (service, ward or individual).
Fear and force have been Mr Kadyrov's main tools of governance.
We argue that "microaccountability," our term for the structuring and formalization of convivial relationships into a capillary system of accountability, must be recognized as a central tool of social governance under neoliberalism.
"Instead of a tool for governance, the office of the president becomes a tool for domination, in which the resources of the nation are husbanded for the benefit of a family, a clan or an ethnic group".
He has inspired a new generation of activist investors, such as Seneca, that focus on generating shareholder value through the tools of corporate governance.
(To my mind, there's enormous potential for progress testing new ways to share and shape ideas, and far slimmer prospects for using environmental treaty-making and other tools of global governance).
Most of these proposals, one might say, focus less on addressing these transnational challenges in the short term than on creating new tools of global governance to surmount them over the long term.
With the development of the "governance" concept, international institutions represented by the World Bank have developed a variety of analytical tools for governance assessment, such as World Governance Index (WGI), the Governance Analysis Framework (GAF), etc.
Jon Chait agrees that the Republican minority's determination to cripple government as a negotiating tool creates a crisis of governance, but he has a "less moralistic" take on things.
