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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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1. Verfasser: Paquet, Gilles
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, ©2009
Schriftenreihe:Governance series (Ottawa, Ont.)
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Zusammenfassung: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 governance and social arrangements based on these platforms result in weak information infrastructure, poor accountability, and inadequate organizational design, and that these arrangements ultimately fail. He rejects borrowing approaches from the physical sciences and suggests that a richer perspective less.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 279 pages.)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages (252)-270) and index.
ISBN:9780776617787
0776617788
9780776618104
0776618105
ISSN:1487-3052

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