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Governance through social learning / Gilles Paquet.

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Paquet, Gilles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©1999.
Series:Governance series.
Subjects:
Corporate governance > Social aspects.
Public administration > Social aspects.
Social learning.
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.

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