
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

May 10
Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law: A Conversation
Join Justice Alexander Pless of the Quebec Superior Court and Professor Paul Daly as they discuss Daly’s new book Understanding Administrative Law in …

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

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
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.
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Congratulations to André Lecours on the new publication!
CoG Director of Research and Professor André Lecours has published a new book on federalism in collaboration with his colleague, Daniel Béland.
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CoG launches a new video series Public Governance Diaries
The Centre on Governance is pleased to present a new educational video series called The Public Governance Diaries.
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The Gilles Paquet Award
The Centre on Governance is pleased to share the announcement on the GILLES PAQUET AWARD created by ACFAS.
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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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