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Publication

1999 - University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780776616056
  • ISBN-100776616056
  • Open LibraryOL31370145M

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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