Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures: A Plea for Experimentalism

by Gilles Paquet

In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological "mental prisons."

Paquet describes the prevailing policy development process in Canada in terms of its weak information infrastructure, poor accountability, and inflexible organization design...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0776607030
• ISBN13: 9780776607030
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"