Dixon and his colleagues provide a behaviorist perspective on
governance. Their concern is with the governed's responses to those
who seek to govern them-their governors-and the counter responses
that they induce from the governors. They take as axiomatic that
the governed are not a homogenized and amorphus them in the them-us
dichotomy, reduced to what Carlyle called a dead logic formula,
thereby, for the purpose of this analysis, leave begging all the
relevant questions.
The governed are not a disembodied abstraction; they are an
aggregate of men and women of flesh and blood. In a corporation,
they are corporate directors (whose governors are those who own or,
perhaps, have a stake in that corporation), corporate managers
(whose governors are the corporate directors), corporate employees
(whose governors are the corporate managers). In a society, they
are individuals or groups of individuals, perhaps in corporations,
located within its jurisdiction (whose governors are the members of
societal politial and administrative elites). At the global level,
they are individuals or groups of individuals in countries and
corporations within the jurisdiction of international governmental
organizations and international regimes (whose governors are those
who seek to control those global governance mechanisms). Whether
the governed's response to their governors' processs is one of
compliance or antagonism, and how the governors response to any
antagoism, has implications for governance capacity, good
governance, and governability. A provocative study that will be of
interest to students and scholars of political theory,
international relations, and management and organizational theory
as well as those who are concerned with issues of goverance at all
levels, corporate, societal, and global.
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