
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

Sep 25
Politics in Multinational States: Canada and the United Kingdom
A bilingual event organised by the Centre on Governance

Jun 1
The Nexus of State-Developmentalism and Neoliberalism in the Development of the Korean Cultural Industries
Hybrid event organized by the Centre on Governance and the International Francophonie Research Chair on Cultural Heritage Policies

May 15
Concede or Resist? Experimental Evidence from Canadian Municipal Officials
Event organized by the Centre on Governance and the Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair
Research Networks

Public management and governance
Current economic, societal, and technological transformations are changing management and governance practices in the public sector.

Cultural policy
The Centre’s researchers work on many topics such as cultural policy, culture and social cohesion, and local cultural policies.

Urban and territorial governance
Since the mid-1990s, the question of governance has been at the center of research on territories, urban and otherwise.

Social policy
Focuses on the effect of social policies and the institutions that deploy them on the direction of human lives.

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.
Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences
New collaboration agreement with the Centre de Recherche en Gestion des Organisations (CREGO)
A new collaboration with CREGO, located in Dijon, France
Research

Research
Professor Eric Champagne is reappointed head of the Centre on Governance.
The Centre on Governance wishes to inform its members that Professor Eric Champagne has been reappointed for a second and final five-year term. His ne…
Faculty of Social Sciences

Faculty of Social Sciences
The Centre on Governance wishes to congratulate Professor André Lecours on his mandate as Chairman of CPSA
The Centre on Governance would like to congratulate Professor André Lecours on his successful term as President of the Canadian Political Science Asso…
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Centre on Governance
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ottawa
120 University Private
Social Sciences Building
Room 5043
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 6N5
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