The human right to «good governance»: concept and the normative content

Abstract

The article analyzes the concept of the right to «good governance», which recently been restated
in the regulations of the European Union as one of the «new» human rights. The authors examine the
relationship of this right to constitutional acts of states and the European Union regulatory documents, as well as features of the normative content of the right to «good governance» in accordance with the
EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in 2000. The right to «good governance» was initially secured in the
constitutional acts of the countries of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and then spread to the constitutional
acts of other states. Thus, the authors cite the constitutional acts of Canada, Greece, Andorra
as an example. The analogy of the right to «good governance» is also fixed in the constitutions of the Russian
Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan. According to the authors the right to «good governance»
refers to the category of first-generation rights, because it is in a certain sense, a logical continuation of
the constitutional right of citizens to participate in managing state affairs, in relation to such integration
associations such as the European Union. The article points to the existing relationship between the right
to «good governance» and the internal and external functions of the state.