A good government needs to resolve issues relating to social injustice, inequality, slavery and other social evils. Rousseau was also equally vociferous against private property and wealth amassing terming it as against common social laws, where a socialistic pattern of society needed to be enforced. Coming to the aspects of what problems a good government would need to resolve, it would be necessary to first find out the evils in society; each individual member in society would be judging the government from his/her point of view. The problems that need to be resolved by a student may not be common with that of a housewife or even a businessman. A student may wish that a good government would ban school and college strikes, while a housewife would want prices of essential food items to be lowered and streets made safer for women, the businessmen would want lower taxes and excise duties of commodities to be cut down substantially to allow him more profits in business.
Thus, it is seen that different workgroups and citizens would view good governance in different ways. However, Rousseau believed that a good government would be the one that could take good care of the subjects just as in a monarchy; the subjects would look upon the king for his benevolence, good judgment, and magnanimity. Again, the aspect of good governance is subjective; it is possible that at one time, the government may be deemed good and, at other times, worse. In certain policy matters, the public would condemn the government, especially with regard to corruption in high places and bureaucratic approaches.
Thus, good governance or government has come to denote a rule, which cares for the people and does not indulge in self-aggrandizement but considers social good as prime motivators of policymaking and enforcement.