Reflexive Governance for Research and Innovative Knowledge

Marc Maesschalck is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium and Director of the Centre de Philosophie du Droit (CPDR). He has recently published Democracy Law and Governance as well as Transformations de l'éthique and Towards a Theory of Governance.

• Foreword  ixIntroduction  xvChapter 1. RRI and Governance Theory 11.1. Definition of a minimum concept of governance 11.2. RRI and governance theory 61.2.1. The transition toward questions of governance in RRI policy  71.2.2. Introduction of explicit reflection on governance theory  101.2.3. Contributions of the GREAT project 141.2.4. Reasons for the delayed shift  171.3. The case of neighboring fields  211.4. Lessons to be learned 241.5. Changing perspective 28Chapter 2. The Origins of Governance Theory  312.1. Old and new governance: a first shift 362.2. The neo-institutionalist hypothesis 402.3. The nodal governance approach 442.4. The move toward democratic experimentalism  492.5. Institutionalist change and reflexivity in governance theories 55Chapter 3. Exploring Reflexive Governance Theory 573.1. Reflexivity and the academic third party 623.2. Reflexivity and the imaginary third party 673.3. Reflexivity and the real third party 693.4. The increase in references to reflexivity  723.5. Reasons why this use of reflexivity is unsatisfactory 763.6. What remains out of scope  79Chapter 4. Key Strengths of a Reflexive Theory of Governance 854.1. Attention as “thematization” 864.2. Reflexivity in governance  914.3. Deconstructing governance narratives 944.4. Examples of post hoc thematization of relational decentering  984.5. Shortcomings of thematization 1054.6. The five stages of reflexive governance in identity processes 109Chapter 5. Promoting Reflexive Governance of RRI 1175.1. Co-constructing problems  1225.2. Transformation of relational structures and negotiability of roles 1255.3. Iterating identities 1285.4. RRIs pathway for reflexive governance  1325.5. Operationalizing reflexive governance of RRI  137Chapter 6. Intellectual Intervention in Society: The Key to Reflexive Governance of RRI 1456.1. The destiny of rationality in the construction of common interest 1486.2. The fragmentation of knowledge  1566.3. Contradiction and pluralization of real interests 1616.4. From intellectual intervention to the community of destiny 1656.5. The possible role of political philosophy 1706.6. Long and short cycles of RRI governance 1726.7. A new model for the institution of knowledge? 175Conclusion 179Bibliography  185Index 197