Abstract

The terms "Governance" and "Governmentality" are similar: both rewrite the categories of politics taking as a starting point the de-sovereignty and focusing the interdependence between institutional actors, rulers and ruled. But the link between governance and governmentality makes it something more than a new form of administration: a form of life, a new pervasive rationality that shape individual identity and social relationships (as well as the relations between states, institutions, enterprises) - therefore a true political rationality - which organizes their coexistence through the modus operandi of competitiveness.