Autopoiesis and Configuration Theory: New Approaches to Societal Steering

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Autopoiesis, Configuration and Steering: Impossibility Theorem or Dynamic Steering Theory....Pages 3-17
Introduction to Configuration Approach: A Process Theory for Societal Steering....Pages 19-29
Introduction to Autopoiesis Theory and Autopoietic Steering....Pages 31-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Some Notions on Social Integration and Steering....Pages 47-54
Offering New Possibilities of Organizing in Social Situations: Towards a Posture of Decentering and Centering....Pages 55-66
Managing of Social Cognitive Configurations in a Multiple Context....Pages 67-77
Knowledge, Reification and Organization; Some Critical Comments....Pages 79-85
The Feasibility of Developing a Political Steering Theory Based on Process-Oriented Configuration Theories....Pages 87-97
Effective Policy Making in a Multi-Actor Setting: Networks and Steering....Pages 99-111
Consistency, Configuration, Closure and Change....Pages 113-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Autopoiesis and Steering: How Politics Profit from the Normative Surplus of Capital....Pages 127-141
Environmentalmediation: An Example of Applied Autopoiesis?....Pages 143-150
Autopoiesis and Steering: The Role of Identity....Pages 151-160
Policy Instruments for Steering Autopoietic Actors....Pages 161-170
Autopoiesis, Learning and Governmental Steering....Pages 171-181
Communication and Steering: What the Science of Public Administration Could Learn from Habermas and Luhmann....Pages 183-191
Applicability of Autopoiesis to Administration Science....Pages 193-205
Simulation: Learning Environments for (Self-)Steering in Social Systems....Pages 207-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
A Stranger in Paradise? Autopoiesis, Configuration and Societal Steering....Pages 225-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-256