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Category Archives: Governance
The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems
We’re at a critical juncture in our global economy, with the siloed ways of the past (public vs. private) quickly fading. Instead, we are witnessing a step change in how society deals with its own problems, in which government acts … Continue reading
A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Resilience, Socio-ecological systems
Tagged governance, resilience, socio-ecological systems
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Social innovation, governance and community building
This publication contains the final report of the project ‘Social innovation, governance and community building’, whose work has primarily contributed to the area ‘Towards social cohesion in Europe’. The report brings the attention onto the re-emergence of old basic needs. … Continue reading
Posted in Community change, Governance, Social innovation
Tagged communities, governance, social innovation
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The governance of problems: puzzling, powering, participation
Read Policy analysis usually gives more attention to problem solving than problem finding and there is a real threat of mismatch between problem perceptions by citizens and problem definition by their elected and appointed policy makers. Contemporary democracies need to … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Governance, Participation, Politics, Problem solving
Tagged governance, power, problem finding, problem solving, problems, public policy
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Governance, Complexity and Democratic Participation
This article applies complexity theory to urban governance. It is argued that expert-based, hierarchical-instrumental policy making encounters insurmountable obstacles in modern liberal democracies. One of the root causes of this erosion of output legitimacy is the complexity of social systems. … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Democracy, Governance, Participation
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Governance of online creation communities – Provision of platforms of participation for the building of digital commons
This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the governance of online creation communities. Two components can be distinguished in online creation communities: a platform of participation around which the community is generated and the providers of such a platform. … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Governance, Internet, Social change, Social movements
Tagged communities, governance, internet, social change, social movements
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Between self-organization and government – a complexity perspective on the rise and fall of the hierarchical state
The literature on governance that has emerged in the past 15 years indicates that the position of government in society has changed substantially. This development is most often looked at as the increased complexity of Western societies and its problems, … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Governance, Hierarchy, Self-organization
Tagged complexity, governance, hierarchy, self-organization
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Global Governance Through Transnational Network Organizations – Civil Society Self-Organization
Read When the topic of global governance or post-national governance arises, it generally does so in the context of the co-operation between nation states, international agreements and the role of international organizations. As opposed to this, global governance through the … Continue reading
Posted in Civil society, Globalization, Governance, Self-governance, Self-organization
Tagged civil society, governance, networks
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Governance Avalanches – A Self-Organized Criticality Perspective on Innovation in Global Governance
This presentation explores the applicability of self-organized criticality to the study of innovation in global governance. After introducing the concept of self-organized criticality, the discussion will turn to its utility for studying social systems. Matthew Hoffmann will present both an … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Complexity, Critical thinking, Governance, Self-organization
Tagged complexity, critical thinking, self-organization
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