Governance Through Social Learning

Gilles Paquet

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Year: 1999
• eBook ISBN: 9780776616056
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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
• Part II – Social Learning in Action
• Part III – New Directions
• Conclusion – The Burden of Office, Ethics, and Connoisseurship
• References