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Evolution of Governance or Genealogy of Power?
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This chapter focuses on the analytical and normative levels of Evolutionary Governance Theory. The theorietcail framework will be contrasted with the genealogies of power written by French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault. Two issues are discussed. First the tension between what is considered as necessary and what contingent. Secondly it will elaborate on normative dimension that underlies a focus on contingency in the explicit attempt to turn what is not presently conceived of as problematic into something we might wish to reconsider.
... Asheim, 2002;Granovetter, 1985) and evolutionary governance theory (EGT; Van Assche et al., 2015), in particular its normative dimension (e.g. Dix, 2015). Spatial embeddedness is a concept that emphasizes the role of space and geography in a corporate network; spatial embeddedness is often used to explain where corporate activities are located and how they are organized (Kim & Kim, 2020). ...
... For example, from traditional to technological-intensive industry or from individual oil burners, to district heating systems. In its normative dimension, EGT explores the consequences of novel conceptions for society and policymaking and tries to articulate the limits of governance, for example authoritarian nation-states, as well as its opportunities (Dix, 2015). In this paper, we devote attention to this normative dimension. ...
This paper discusses the pathways to the knowledge economy taken by two countries with abundant fossil-fuel reserves, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The shift towards a knowledge economy involves a rethinking of the relationships between education, science, learning, production and service delivery. It also involves collectively defined visions or long-term perspectives, a change of economic narratives and governance arrangements. Notwithstanding a dynamic body of research on the knowledge economy suggesting that, its effectiveness in enabling transformation depends on how well it adapts to the socio spatial and institutional contexts, countries often chase models that have achieved success elsewhere. Against these copycat strategies, in this paper we critically reflect on the Saudi and Qatar’s aspirations in steering their economic development in the direction of production and services based on knowledge. This is justified because international consultancy takes the lead in preparing and strategizing such aspirations. These firms sell the same pathway to economic transition to multiple countries. We specifically question how appropriate or realistic are the strategies intended to support a transition to the knowledge economy in these two long-standing theocratic monarchies. The novelty of this study is that we do this through the lens of spatial embeddedness and evolutionary governance theory. We conclude by sketching a practice-oriented agenda intended to support policymakers working within similar cultural contexts, to strategize knowledge economy transitions embedded in both, local communities and governance settings.
This book offers the reader a remarkable new perspective on the way markets, laws and societies evolve together. It can be of use to anyone interested in development, market and public sector reform, public administration, politics & law. Based on a wide variety of case studies on three continents and a variety of conceptual sources, the authors develop a theory that clarifies the nature and functioning of dependencies that mark governance evolutions. This in turn delineates in an entirely new manner the spaces open for policy experiment. As such, it offers a new mapping of the middle ground between libertarianism and social engineering. Theoretically, the approach draws on a wide array of sources: institutional & development economics, systems theories, post-structuralism, actor- network theories, planning theory and legal studies.
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