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Scheming Virtuously: the Road to Collaborative Governance
The author has been researching and writing about governance issues for forty years and this book is a systematic journey through our perplexing and frustrating experiences with governance failures, and the alternatives which show promise. Dr. Paquet challenges Statist assumptions and presents the alternative paradigm of collaborative governance. Imagine a world where no one is in charge! That may be our future, whether we want it or not.
For those interested in the practical implications for the world of public management of the new perspectives developed in this book, please visit www.cpsrenewal.ca where Nicholas Charney and Mike Mangulabnan have developed Scheming Virtuously – A Handbook for Public Servants as a reaction to a Summer 2008 lecture given by Gilles Paquet, who invited them to become "subversive virtuous schemers".
Key Ideas:
The genealogy of a manière de voir
Early probing
Ill-structured problems and experimental intelligence
MRI for an arterio-sclerotic socio-economy
Questioning assumptions
State-centricity as dogma
Solidarity organizations as under-rated option
Stewardship versus leadership.
Federalism as social technology
An informational view of the regulatory process
An agenda for change in the federal public service
Scheming Virtuously: the road to collaborative governance
Informational and learning perspectives
Lamberton’s road to the information and learning economy
Evolutionary cognitive economics: provisional framework
Guideposts on the road to collaborative governance
Some quotations from the book:
"The central question of governance is design."
What readers have said:
Gilles Paquet is the Marshal McLuhan of governance...
This Quebec City native has a taste for controversy. Among the more than 40 books that he was written or edited is Oublier la révolution tranquille, published in 1999, in which he disputed the beneficent effects of Quebec's social revolution in the post-Duplessis years of the 1960s.
If, after a dispersed national conversation about a moral contract, Canadians of all origins decided that there were certain Canadian values and practices that would remain for the moment bedrock, then Canada would be in the state of "interculturalism," Mr. Paquet says. And that is the situation in Quebec, which insists upon, among other things, the primacy of the French language.
Gilles Paquet has published a large number of books and scholarly articles on governance. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research at Carleton University and Dean of the School of Management at the University of Ottawa. Currently, he is Professor Emeritus, associated with the Centre on Governance and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is a senior partner in Invenire and is also editor-in-chief of www.optimumonline.ca, a publication specializing in governance issues.
Scheming Virtuously: the road to collaborative governance Quality paperback 2009, 6 x9” 300pp,
ISBN: 978-0-9813931-0-0 $27.95
distributor's EAN: 9780889701311
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