This first volume in the Collaborative Decentred Metagovernance Series scopes:
- what is meant by collaborative decentred metagovernance and stewardship;
- how this new problematique has emerged;
- on what assumptions and key concepts it is built;
- the central role played by inquiring systems in public policy; and
- how it can be used to throw some light on wicked policy problems in policy domains like health, productivity and innovation, as well as on persistent and perplexing issues like the need to strike a new balance in conflicts with Aboriginal communities over such things as the illegal tobacco trade and self-governance.
This book explains how collaborative decentred metagovernance combines forms and styles of governance being experimented with in the private, public and voluntary sectors, to ensure effective coordination when no one can legitimately lay claim to being in charge because power, resources and information are widely distributed into many hands, and governance must, of necessity, be decentred and collaborative.
Ruth Hubbard is a practitioner, advisor, explorer, and published writer about governance and management challenges, especially in the public and not-for-profit sectors. She served for more than a decade as a federal deputy minister, during the iImplementation of Canada''s value-added tax (the GST). Later, she was Master of the Royal Canadian Mint and President of the Public Service Commission. She was a senior research fellow at the University of Ottawa's Centre on Governance and Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. from 2002 to 2017.
Gilles Paquet (1936-2019), O.C., MRSC, was Professor Emeritus at the Telfer School of Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of Arts of London, and served as President of the Royal Society of Canada (2003-2005). He studied at Laval, Queen's (Canada) and at the University of California (Los Angeles) where he was Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics. He taught at Carleton University for almost 20 years before joining the University of Ottawa in 1981. He received honorary doctorates from Queen's, Laval, and Thompson Rivers University, received the Public Service Citation Award of APEX, and was made Honorary Member of l'Association des économistes québécois. He was made Member of the Order of Canada in 1992.
Christopher Wilson is a senior research fellow at the Center on Governance of the University of Ottawa and a senior consultant on collaborative governance and partnership in the public and voluntary sectors. For over 15 years, Wilson has worked with many public, private, and civic partnerships as a partner and as an evaluator while teaching collaboration and governance at the University.
