Governance Through Social Learning / Gilles Paquet.

• Author: Paquet, Gilles, 1936-
• Place / Publishing House: Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 1999.; ©1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Governance series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Governance connotes the way an organization, an economy, or a social system co-ordinates and steers itself. Some insist that governing is strictly a top-down process guided by authority and coercion, while others emphasize that it emerges bottom-up through the workings of the free market. This book rejects these simplistic views in favour of a more distributed view of governance based on a mix of coercion, quid pro quo market exchange and reciprocity, on a division of labour among the private, public, and civic sectors, and on the co-evolution of these different integration mechanisms. This book is for both practitioners confronted with governance issues and for citizens trying to make sense of the world around them.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; Introduction - Governing, Governance, and Governability; Part I - A Framework; 1. New Patterns of Governance; 2. Tackling Wicked Problems; Part II - Social Learning in Action; A - International Perspectives; B - National Perspectives; C - Social Perspectives; D - Administrative Perspectives; Part III - New Directions; 11. The Strategic State; 12. Betting on Moral Contracts; 13. Distributed Governance and Transversal Leadership; Conclusion - The Burden of Office, Ethics, and Connoisseurship; References