international government

…Secondly, the narrow concept of government as seen in German law survives, as in the present day Japanese people often refer to the cabinet as the government. However, in Germany and Japan, the principle of legitimacy of state activities has shifted from monarchical sovereignty to popular sovereignty, and it has come to be taken for granted that even a narrow government is regulated and monitored by the legislative and judicial branches, and that it mediates through the representatives of the people. Thirdly, the traditional concept of a national government, which has been closely and inseparably linked to the sovereign state system since the Treaty of Westphalia and regarded as an external policy-making body, has been relativized and diluted by the formation of supranational policy-making bodies such as the United Nations and the European Community, deepening interdependence between nations, and the diversification and multi-layering of the levels of action of nations, such as private diplomacy and exchanges between local governments. The formation of the concept of self-governance, linked to the idea of ​​self-administration, has also forced a reexamination of the traditional concept of government. …

*Some explanations of terms that refer to "international government" are listed below.

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…第2に，現在の日本でも内閣を政府と呼ぶ場合が多いように，ドイツ国法学型の狭義の政府概念は生き残るが，ドイツや日本などでも君主主権から国民主権へと国家活動の正統性原理が転換することにより，狭義の政府であっても立法･司法府の規制と監視を受け，国民代表を媒介することが当然とみなされるようになった。第3に，ウェストファリア条約以来の主権国家システムと密接不可分で対外的政策決定主体とみなされてきた伝統的国家政府national governmentの観念が，国際連合，ヨーロッパ共同体など超国家的政策決定主体の形成や国家間相互依存の深まり，さらには民間外交や地方自治体間交流など諸国民の行動レベルの多元化，多層化により相対化され稀釈されて，国際政府international governmentや地方政府local governmentの観念が発達してきた。自主管理self administration構想と結びついた自己統治＝自治self government観念の形成も，従来の政府概念に再検討を迫ってきている。…

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