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Acknowledgments Although they have been modified a number of times, important segments of several chapters have been drawn from previously published papers. Introduction and Chapter 3 2001. The New Governance, Subsidiarityand the Strategic State. In W.Michalski et al. (ed). Governancein the 21st Century. Paris: OECD. 183-214. Chapter 1 1995. Institutional Evolution in an Information Age. In T. J. Courchene (ed.). Technology, Information and Public Policy. The Bell Canada Papers in Economics and Public Policy, 3. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. 197-229. Chapter 2 1997. States, Communitiesand Markets: The Distributed Governance Scenario. In T.J. Courchene (ed). TheNation-State in a GlobalInformation Era:Policy Challenges. The Bell Canada Papers in Economics and Public Policy, 5. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy. 25-46. Chapter 4 2003. Ecologies of Governance and Institutional Metissage (with R. Hubbard). Optimumonline 32(4): 25-34. 319 Chapter 5 2000. OnHemispheric Governance. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 6(10): 9-21. Chapter 6 1998. Technonationalism and Meso Innovation Systems. In R. Anderson et al (eds). Innovation Systems in a Global Context.Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 58-75. Chapter 7 2001. Smart Communities and the Geo-governance of Social Learning. Optimumonline. 31(2): 33-50. Chapter 8 The governance of sustainability. A social learning approach. Inaugural address to the First National Colloquium on the Governance of Sustainable Development. (January 26, 2004). Chapter 9-10 2002. Ocean Governance:An Inquiry into Stakeholding (with K. Wilkins). Ottawa: Centre on Governance. Chapter 11 2003. Toward a Baroque Governance in 21st Century Canada. In C. Gaffield and K. L. Gould (eds). The Canadian Distinctivenessinto the 21stCentury. Ottawa: The University of Ottawa Press. 59-88. Chapter 12 2004. Governance and Emergent Transversal Citizenship, Pluralism and Governance: Toward a New Nexus of Moral Contracts. In P. Boyer, L. Cardinal and D. Headon (eds). From Subjects to Citizens: OneHundred Years of Citizenship in Australia and Canada. Ottawa: The University of Ottawa Press. 231-61. ...

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