What's the difference between misgovernance and misgovernment?
Misgovernance
Definition:
(n.) Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(2) Climbing has become a key source of income for Nepal , a state reduced to poverty by lengthy civil strife and misgovernment.
(3) Eritrea is poor, misgoverned, miserable and far away.
(4) The fact that she turned the next two decades into 20 years of brilliant service as a critic of misgovernment and mismanagement was a heartwarming story, at least outside the governments of Blair and Gordon Brown.
(5) Yehor Sobelev, a journalist and Maidan activist who now leads the Lustration Committee – a body that wants to force all Ukrainian public officials to undergo checks for past links to corruption and misgovernance – says Poroshenko has not done nearly enough during his time in charge.
(6) Vinod Mehta, editor of Outlook news magazine, said the party had lost power because of "more than three decades of misgovernment and dogma".
(7) Hamas's upset election victory in 2006 was built largely on despair with the corruption, misgovernance and authoritarianism of the ruling Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat until his death two years earlier.
(8) Economically misgoverned for a generation, we are reduced to being principle-free economic mendicants, with Bambi Osborne and Thumper Johnson touring the world for hand-outs.
(9) Ireland departed the union in exasperation at London misgovernment in 1922 .
Misgovernment
Definition:
(n.) Bad government; want of government.
Example Sentences:
(1) The decision raised hackles both in Washington, where it was feared it would tarnish the credibility of the war effort, and in Afghanistan, where many local people concluded the Americans were not serious about rooting out corruption and misgovernance.
(2) Climbing has become a key source of income for Nepal , a state reduced to poverty by lengthy civil strife and misgovernment.
(3) Eritrea is poor, misgoverned, miserable and far away.
(4) The fact that she turned the next two decades into 20 years of brilliant service as a critic of misgovernment and mismanagement was a heartwarming story, at least outside the governments of Blair and Gordon Brown.
(5) Yehor Sobelev, a journalist and Maidan activist who now leads the Lustration Committee – a body that wants to force all Ukrainian public officials to undergo checks for past links to corruption and misgovernance – says Poroshenko has not done nearly enough during his time in charge.
(6) Vinod Mehta, editor of Outlook news magazine, said the party had lost power because of "more than three decades of misgovernment and dogma".
(7) Hamas's upset election victory in 2006 was built largely on despair with the corruption, misgovernance and authoritarianism of the ruling Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat until his death two years earlier.
(8) Economically misgoverned for a generation, we are reduced to being principle-free economic mendicants, with Bambi Osborne and Thumper Johnson touring the world for hand-outs.
(9) Ireland departed the union in exasperation at London misgovernment in 1922 .