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Crippling epistemologies and governance failures : a plea for experimentalism /

In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures Gilles Paquet attacks the dominant practices of the social sciences and their reliance on inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence, and inquiry, which have become methodological and ideological "mental prisons". He argues that governanc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Paquet, Gilles
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2009
Colección:Governance series (Ottawa, Ont.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The difficult emergence of a new mind set
  • pt. I. Crippling Epistemologies
  • Ch. 1. Two tramps in mud time
  • Ch. 2. Professional "wrighting and wroughting"
  • Ch. 3. Corporate culture and governance
  • pt. II. Weak Infrastructure and Inadequate Scaffolding Introduction
  • Ch. 4. Weak cognitive infrastructure
  • Ch. 5. Unintelligent accountability
  • Ch. 6. Organization design neglected
  • pt. III. Less than Effective Bricolage
  • Ch. 7. Nothing is more rational than a rationalization
  • Ch. 8. Science policy: circumstantial evidence
  • Ch. 9. Foreign policy: the many are smarter than the few
  • Conclusion: The difficulty of unlearning.