From Representations to Compositions

Governance Beyond the Three-Sector Society

Bibliographic Data

ID12450649
AuthorsThomas J Catlaw (Arizona State University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume29
Issue2
Pages225-259
Publication date2007-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdministrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10841806.2007.11029577
OpenAlexW2340139807
LanguageEN
Citations received9

This article argues that even in its most critical moments public administrative thought has failed to move beyond the basic socio-political coordinates and divisions of modernity, elements of what the author calls the "political ontology of representation." Contemporary theories of governance, however, raise serious questions about the efficacy of this ontology and so open avenues for rethinking the nature of the field's inquiry and practices. These theories gesture toward a conception of order that breaks from the tripartite state-market-civil society model. But governance theory is not without its own lingering fidelity to representation that generates some important tensions and contradictions between its empirico-historical account of the contemporary world and its conceptual apparatus. The article concludes with an outline of how to advance our understanding of governance beyond representation and modernity through a fundamentally relational rather than sectoral conceptualization of governing called the "analysis of compositions

Business · Corporate governance · Political science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Human Rights and Development · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Public Administration · Finance

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access