Governance Through Social Learning / Gilles Paquet.

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...

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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.
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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