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Centre on Governance
The mandate of the Centre on Governance is to work with organizations to better understand governance mechanisms in order to analyze implementation problems and provide better services.
Featured Events
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Jun 4
International Perspectives on the Challenges of Water Law and Governance
An event organised by the University of Ottawa Forum on Water Law and Governance, the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, the Centre for Environmental Law…
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May 2
The Strategic State: Key lessons from the Scottish experience
Event organised by the Centre on Governance.
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Apr 24
Immigration Nation: Framing and Reality of Biden's Immigration Policy Leading up to the 2024 Presidential Election
An event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies and the Centre on Governance.
Research Networks
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Public management and governance
Current economic, societal, and technological transformations are changing management and governance practices in the public sector.
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Cultural policy
The Centre’s researchers work on many topics such as cultural policy, culture and social cohesion, and local cultural policies.
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Urban and territorial governance
Since the mid-1990s, the question of governance has been at the center of research on territories, urban and otherwise.
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Social policy
Focuses on the effect of social policies and the institutions that deploy them on the direction of human lives.
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Federalism and Multi-Level Governance
The decentralization of political power requires the presence of intergovernmental relations as an important component of the public policy process.
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Congratulations to the winner of the National Student Award for Leadership in Public Administration
The winner of the National Student Award for Thought Leadership in Public Administration is a student from the Centre on Governance!
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New Issue of Culture and Local Governance Journal
The new Volume 8, No.1 (2023) is now published! It is a special edition and celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Culture and Local Governance journa…
Faculty of Social Sciences
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Faculty of Social Sciences
Blog Post Series: Federalism and Policy
Blog Post Series published by the Forum of Federations in collaboration with the Centre on Governance
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Centre on Governance
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
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Social Sciences Building
Room 5043
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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