Indices of Good Governance in Notion and Action of Imam Ali (A.S.)

Good governance is a new pattern for a stable human development which empowers societies to utilize their capabilities for a comprehensive development. Civil society along with a dynamic, powerful and expansionist state could further the basis of developing good governance and therefore comprehensive development with the least possible damage. Scholars have postulated six factors for the realization of “Good Governance” including: Legalism, transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness, partnership seeking, justice-orientedness, anti-corruption, lenience and toleration. In this regard, this research tries to extract, review and evaluate the indices of good governing by probing in the practical and theoretical tradition of Imam Ali (A.S.) using descriptive-analytical method.