Governance Through Social Learning

by Gilles Paquet

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0776604880
• ISBN13: 9780776604886
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 272 Pages