Table des matières

• CHANCE EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
• UNE MANIÈRE DE VOIR
• The Boulding Triangle
• Heterarchy and Co-evolution
• “Glocalization” and Dispersion of Power
• DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE
• A Triangle-wide Governance System
• Transversal Governance and Meso-innovation Systems
• Renaissance-style Interdependency
• ADDITIONS TO THE LEXICON
• SOCIAL LEARNING
• Interaction and Conventions
• Ideal-types of Transaction Structures
• The Learning Cycle and Learning Blockages
• Interactivity
• Design Rationality
• PROPOS D’ÉTAPE

Part I - A Framework

• A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
• Information and Organization
• Evolution of Governance
• CRITIQUE OF THE STANDARD PARADIGMS OF GOVERNANCE
• External Pressures
• Internal Constraints
• Anomalies and Paradoxes
• THE ORGANIZATION AS CLAN
• Anatomy
• Physiology
• The Ideological Glue
• THE NEW COMPETENCE
• Families of New Competencies
• Experiential and Action Learning
• CONCLUSION

• POLICY AS PROCESS
• The Standard Models of Policymaking
• Econocrats Versus Situationologists
• The Search for a Third Way
• The Paradigm of Social Practice
• SOCIAL LEARNING AS A TOOL
• Practical Reasoning
• Critical Interpretation
• Diagnostic Approach
• Design Capability
• CONCLUSION

Part II - Social Learning in Action

A - International Perspectives

• SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH: A GENERAL DIAGNOSIS
• Syntax Versus Semantics
• Parsimony, Normalization, Regulation
• The need for interpretation
• THE FREE TRADE DEBATE
• Anatomy of the Free Trade Debate
• Some Paradoxes
• Anamorphosis of the Free Trade Debate
• WHAT REFURBISHED SOCIAL SCIENCES MIGHT CONTRIBUTE
• The Nature of the Repairs
• Toward a New Model of Policy Research
• Dimensions of Interdependence
• CONCLUSION

• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
• The Technological Paradigm
• Multinational Enterprises and Technology Transfer
• National Government Policies
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY UNDER FREE TRADE
• CONCLUSION

B - National Perspectives

• TOWARD A SOCIAL LEARNING APPROACH
• Construction of a Meta-rule
• Energy as Révélateur
• Nexus of Interconnected Problems
• Useable Ignorance
• ALTERNATIVE FRAMEWORKS
• Efficiency Frameworks
• Dominant Value Frameworks
• Gaming Frameworks
• Collective Action Frameworks
• An Integrated Framework
• THE ENERGY OPTIONS PROCESS
• Eliciting Inadequate Meta-rules
• Four Components Out of Kilter
• Implementation Vacuum
• A Provisional Evaluation
• CONCLUSION

• A POLICY VACUUM
• Energy
• Environment
• THREE ISSUES
• Sustainability as Resilience
• Discounting the Future
• Institutional Carpentry
• THE INVISIBLE FOOT AT WORK
• SOCIAL LEARNING
• Governments as Learning Organizations
• A Joint North American Task Force
• POSSIBLE STEPS
• Three Principles
• New Norms
• CONCLUSION

C - Social Perspectives

• MULTICULTURALISM: A CONTAINMENT POLICY
• MULTICULTURALISM: A SYMBOLIC POLICY
• THE DYNAMICS OF MULTICULTURALISM
• CONCLUSION

• A FEW SIGNPOSTS
• The Saskatoon Forum
• Le Non-dit à Saskatoon et à Ottawa
• Entrapments Highlighted
• Experiments: A Very Small Sample
• EDUCATION POLICY: A WICKED PROBLEM
• Problématique
• Goals Not Known or Ambiguous
• Institutional Entrapments
• Epistemology as Lever
• How Do We Learn?
• Education Reform as Social Learning
• Conclusion

D - Administrative Perspectives

• THE CHALLENGES OF GOVERNANCE
• THE TASKS GOVERNMENT SHOULD/SHOULD NOT TAKE ON
• PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS AS DESIGNERS
• PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIONS AS ANIMATEURS
• IN PRAISE OF SHORTCUTS
• Betting on New Organizational/Institutional Forms
• Crafting New Public Service Cultures
• CONCLUSION

• THE MISGUIDED SEARCH FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
• A Sociology of the Academic Profession
• Politics of Confirmation
• Illegitimacy of Delta Knowledge
• GRANTING COUNCIL AS STALLED OMNIBUS
• Producers’ Dominance and Lack of Roots in Civil Society
• Client Demands and Field Requirements
• No Machinery to Evaluate Needs
• USING THE PRINCIPLE OF PRECEDENCE
• Needs and Desires
• A Language of Needs
• Social Learning
• CONCLUSION

Part III - New Directions

• THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SECTORS
• CO-EVOLUTION: RESILIENCE AND SOCIAL LEARNING
• THE PRESENT FLAWED SOCIAL TECHNOLOGY
• FOUNDATIONAL VALUES AND DESIGN PRINCIPLES
• Guiding Values
• Design Principles
• MESO-FORUMS AND THE UNWRITTEN PLAN
• Preceptoral Politics, Meso-forums, and the Unwritten Plan
• New Partnerships and Moral Contracts
• LEADERSHIP IN A POST-MODERN STATE
• Reframing as Lever
• Leader as Animateur
• Governing Relations
• Politics and the Middle Class
• A Language of Common Citizenship
• CONCLUSION

• THE CHALLENGES
• THE IMPACT
• DEFENSE MECHANISMS
• THE WAY OUT
• Professionalism
• Ethics
• GUIDING PRINCIPLES
• Who should kick-start the negotiation process?
• CONCLUSION

• FROM CENTRALIZED TO DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE
• A THREE-PRONGED STRATEGY
• SOCIAL LEARNING AND TRANSVERSAL LEADERSHIP
• RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
• A Centralized Mindset
• The Adversarial Syndrome
• Egalitarianism, Envy, and Resentment
• THE LONG ADMINISTRATIVE ROUTE AS A SHORTCUT
• Social Learning
• Social Learning Through Panic
• Toward a New Deal
• CONCLUSION

• THE BURDEN OF OFFICE AS A CONTESTED CONCEPT
• BURDEN OF OFFICE, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND ETHICS
• DEALING WITH INCOMMENSURABLES
• MORAL REASONING AND INTERMEDIATE CASES
• CONNOISSEURSHIP, SOCIAL LEARNING, AND “BLAMEABILITY”
• CONCLUSION