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Political Science History & Theory

Governance Through Social Learning

by (author) Gilles Paquet

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Apr 1999
Category
History & Theory
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776616056
    Publish Date
    Apr 1999
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776604886
    Publish Date
    Apr 1999
    List Price
    $28.00

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Description

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.

About the author

Gilles Paquet is professor emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and senior research fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. He has authored or edited over 35 books and published a large number of papers on economics, public management and governance.

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