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Governance Through Social Learning

Author

Paquet, Gilles

Year

1999

Publisher

University of Ottawa Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Political Science

Language

English

Pages

280

ISBN

978-0-77661-605-6

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09-Sep-2024

Keywords

POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory

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.

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