| Governance Through Social Learning Contributor(s): Paquet, Gilles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0776604880 ISBN-13: 9780776604886 Publisher: University of Ottawa Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 320 |
| Physical Information: 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |