Scheming Virtuously
The Road to Collaborative Governance
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2022
- Category
- Essays, History & Theory, Commentary & Opinion
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889701311
- Publish Date
- Nov 2019
- List Price
- $27.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776638584
- Publish Date
- Aug 2022
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776638607
- Publish Date
- Aug 2022
- List Price
- $29.95
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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.
About the author
Gilles Paquet is professor emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and senior research fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. He has authored or edited over 35 books and published a large number of papers on economics, public management and governance.