Integrative Governance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises

Margaret Stout is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at West Virginia University. Her research explores the role of public and nonprofit practitioners in achieving democratic social and economic justice with specific interests in administrative theory, public service leadership and ethics, and sustainable community development. Dr. Stout’s first career was in human resource development, with a focus on work/life balance programming. Leading directly out of related experiences in state-wide and regional community and economic development initiatives, her second career was in community and youth development, serving as an executive director, project manager, and consultant to nonprofit and government agencies in Arizona. These experiences inform both her research and teaching through extensive and meaningful community engaged scholarship. Jeannine M. Love is an Associate Professor of Public Administration at Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois. Her research analyzes rhetorics of individualism in political theory and practice, as well as social movements. Her work pays particular attention to issues of racial, economic, and food justice. Dr. Love’s career in public administration began in 2000, when she began working as a child support caseworker in Columbus, Ohio. The practices she witnessed as a "street level bureaucrat," particularly the problematic marginalization of the country’s poorest residents, continues to motivate her research and teaching.

Part I: Situating Integrative Governance; 1: Complex global crises; 2: Governance network theories; 3: Advancing collaborative governance theory and practice; Part II: A transdisciplinary understanding of governance; 4: The meaning of integration; 5. Ontological assumptions: Relational Becoming; 6. Psychosocial theory: Ensembling individuality; 7. Epistemological concepts: Integral Knowing; 8. Belief systems: Co-Creationism; 9. Ethical concepts: Stewardship; 10. Political theory: Radical Democracy; 11. Economic theory: Coopetition; 12. Administrative theory: Facilitative Coordination; Part III: Illustration and affirmation of Integrative Governance; 13: Finding the will to integrate; 14: Affirming Integrative Governance; References; Glossary; Index