
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

Dec 8
Politics of Representation and Money Flows: the Political Economy of Globalisation
Event organised by the Centre on Governance and the Konrad Adenauer Research Chair in Empirical Democracy Studies

Nov 23
Governing the homelessness crisis in Canada
An event organized by the Centre on Governance, the Research Centre on the Future of Cities and the Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chaire.

Nov 16
The Mayor and the Community: “Politics” in Small Municipalities in Québec
An event organised by the Centre on Governance.
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.
International and Francophonie

International and Francophonie
Program gives diplomats a better understanding of Canada
In 2021, a delegation from the University of Ottawa’s uOInternational (formerly the International Office) visited several embassies in the National Ca…
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…
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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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