Governance Through Social Learning

Author

Paquet, Gilles

Year

1999

Publisher

University of Ottawa Press

Type

BOOK

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.

Driving to Safety

Conducting Research Surveys via E-mail and the Web

Faithful Translators

Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market

Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Suburban Britain

Britishness, belonging and citizenship