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A Theory of Governance by Mark Bevir

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A Theory of Governance
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Publisher: eScholarship
ISBN/ASIN: 1938169115
Number of pages: 277

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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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