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Public administration in Canada needs to change. A handful of scholars across Canada have been sounding the alarm for years but to no avail. Talented ...
The Road to Collaborative Governance
Scheming Virtuously: The Road to Collaborative Governance is an invitation to subversion, but also a somewhat personal account of the displacement of ...
A Plea for Experimentalism
In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their in...
About Canadian Federal Executives
This book explores the thinking of Canadian federal public service senior executives through conversations. The transformation of the environment and ...
Slaughtering Some Sacred Cows
Pasquinade is a satire or critical comment traditionally posted in a public place in ancient Rome; in particular, on the statue of Pasquino. Pasquinad...
A Prototype for Social Coordination
Striking the right fit between resources, processes, and outcomes in complex environments, where different groups have something to contribute towards...
A Baroque Approach
Over the last few decades, the Westphalian nation-state has lost its hegemonic position in the system of geo-governance. A dispersive revolution has l...
In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively sm...
A Governance Challenge
Political commentator and public policy analyst Gilles Paquet examines the benefits and drawbacks of Canada's multiculturalism policy. He rejects the ...
Governance connotes the way an organization, an economy, or a social system co-ordinates and steers itself. Some insist that governing is strictly a t...
Collaborative Decentred Metagovernance and Inquiring Systems
This book is the first in a series of books is designed to define cumulatively the contours of collaborative decentred metagovernance. At this time, t...
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A Cascade of Governance Failures
This book revisits the tainted blood tragedy that Canada experienced in the latter part of the 20th century. It presents an argument in brief about th...
Detoxing HR in the Canadian Federal Public Sector
Much of the waste in public administration is ascribable to the displacement of the primary concern for performance and coordination by a primary conc...
Higher Education on the Brink
Equality, Diversity and Sustainability
This short book contributes to accelerating the process of recognition of governance studies as a heuristically powerful field of study in two distinc...
Essays on Social Learning
This book looks into the forces at work that have undermined critical thinking and sound intellectual inquiry in the world of public affairs in Canada...
Exploring Organizational Failures and Design Responses
This short book throws some light on the modern-day pathologies that are crippling the productivity, resilience, innovation and survival of our privat...
More Encompassing, More Institutional, More Practical
Economics is a discipline fundamentally concerned with effective coordination. In that way, its main concerns are very close to those of governance. E...
A Plea for Bold Organizational Experimentation
A Plea for Bold Organizational Experimentation. The eighth book in the Collaborative Metagovernance series is an irreverent challenge to administrativ...
Essays on Social Learning Disabilities
Collaborative Decentred Governance and Inquiring Systems