Terms relating to integrated governance

The usage of the concepts designating the different types of initiatives we have termed “integrated governance” is remarkably variable in the academic and grey literatures that concern them. To provide some situational clarity and to establish more consistency in usage, this glossary strives to define the terms pertaining to this family of concepts.

To this end, the National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy (NCCHPP) has identified or drawn inspiration from definitions proposed by researchers in public administration, political science, and in the social sciences and humanities more generally. Definitions were also taken from or inspired by documents produced by public administration agencies (e.g., ministries or departments, strategic units, the World Health Organization) that are mobilizing these terms by giving them an explicit or (more often) implicit definition. In these cases, we have provided some brief comments to specify which usage we endorse.

This exercise also provides an opportunity to indicate the contexts in which these terms tend to be used most often and to focus on some of their distinctive characteristics. Thus, this glossary is presented both as an exercise in conceptual clarification and as a cartography of the contexts in which these terms are utilized.

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