The Ontology of Public Space
Grounding Governance in Social Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Camilla Stivers (0000-0001-7854-6765, Cleveland State University, OH, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1095-1108 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764208327677 |
| OpenAlex | W1966183100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 11 |
The "new governance" envisions a network of so-called actors-sometimes organizations, sometimes individuals-which collaborate with each other to accomplish policy goals. But the ontology of this model has been largely unexplored. When examined, its objectivist assumptions obscure network dynamics and render mysterious whatever collaboration manages to occur. These assumptions, it is argued, are not logically or empirically necessary. An alternative ontology, grounded in phenomenology, opens democratic vistas that comport as well or better with empirical reality and provide much stronger support for democratic governance
Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratic governance · Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management · Objectivism · Ontology · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Public Policy and Administration Research · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Talking About Government
Transparency in a “Post-Fact” World
You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Till It’s Gone
"Place" as Prepolitical Grounds of Democracy
Building the Foundations of Collaboration
Phenomenology in Public Administration
The Little Blue Pill That Killed the Little Pink House
Gaps in Pursuing Participatory Good Governance
The Present and (Normative) Future of Public Administration and Implications for Aspa
Bridging the theory-practice divide in public administration
Authenticity and community process
Governance and Development
Social Networks and Organizations
Governance and Public Administration
Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Social World and the Theory of Social Action
The Public Agency as Polis
Introduction to the Symposium on Collaborative Public Management
Democratizing the Administrative State
Inside Collaborative Networks
| Citations per year | 0.65 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |