Scheming Virtuously

The Road to Collaborative Governance

By Gilles Paquet, Gilles Paquet, and Gilles Paquet
Categories: Political Science, Government & Elections
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Paperback : 9780776638584, 300 pages, August 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780776638591, 300 pages, August 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780776638607, 300 pages, August 2022

Table of contents

Foreword
Preamble – The genealogy of a manière de voir
Introduction – Foundations
Part I – Early probing
Chapter 1 – Ill-structured problems and experimental intelligence
Chapter 2 – MRI for an arterio-sclerotic socio-economy
Part II – Questioning assumptions
Chapter 3 – State-centricity as dogma
Chapter 4 – Solidarity organizations as under-rated option
Chapter 5 – Stewardship versus leadership
Part III – Sketching and designing
Chapter 6 – Federalism as social technology
Chapter 7 – An informational view of the regulatory process
Chapter 8 – An agenda for change in the federal public service
Part IV – Informational and learning perspectives
Chapter 9 – Lamberton's road to the information and learning economy
Chapter 10 – Evolutionary cognitive economics: provisional framework
Conclusion – Guideposts on the road to collaborative governance
Acknowledgements
Index
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Description

Scheming Virtuously: The Road to Collaborative Governance is an invitation to subversion, but also a somewhat personal account of the displacement of the dominant governing regime (Big-G centralized government) by small-g collaborative governance, in a world where power, resources, and information are widely distributed. In this new world, the citizen’s burden of office is clear: to be a producer of governance. Scheming virtuously is the order of the day—active engagement, imaginative problem-reframing, astute organizational design, and effective action within the bounds of the appreciative systems in good currency and beyond.