A Theory of Governance
by Mark Bevir
Publisher: eScholarship 2013
ISBN/ASIN: 1938169115
Number of pages: 277
Description:
This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature of action, he reexamines the concepts of state, nation, network, and market, and he calls for democratic innovations.
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