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Research on Metaphor, Comprehension and Future Governance Metaphors and governance Online access is also available to many of the following documents, with those of earlier and later date A number of studies focus on the problems of language and incompatible mind-sets in relation to information exchange, policy formulation and appropriate development. Social Exclusion: a metaphoric trap? (1995) 'The Capacity to Govern' by Yehzkel Dror: comments by Anthony J N Judge (1994) Developing a Metaphorical Language for the Future (1994) The Future of Leadership: reframing the unknown (1994) Policy Options for Civil Society Through Complementary Contrasts (1994) Reframing the Challenges of Global Governance Through Metaphor (1993) The Challenge of Civilization as a Challenge of Conceptual Scaffolding (1993) Poetry-Making and Policy-Making: arranging a marriage between beauty and the beast (1993) Varieties of Decision-Making (1993) Metaphor as an unexplored catalytic language for global governance (1993) The 14 Contrasting Concepts of Meaningful Employment (1993) Metaphor and the Language of Futures (1993) Relevance of Rhythm and Rhyme to Policy, Management and Social Organization (1993) Governance Through Confidence Artistry (1993) An Earth Council Identity Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1993) Comprehending an Ecology of Cultures as Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1992) Identity of Europe Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1991) A Latin American Identity Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors/L'identité latino-américaine articulée par un système dynamique de métaphores (1991) Research Network on Catalytic Imagery for Governance in Impossible Situations (1991) Conveying Earth Summit Insights (1991) Aesthetics of Meaning (1991) Metaphors of World Problems and Human Potential (1991) A Canadian Identity Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors/L'identité canadienne articulée par un système dynamique de métaphores (1991) Meshing Imaginative Vision and Policy Implementability: the role of metaphor as a vital cognitive interface (1991) An Indian Identity Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1991) Metaphors as Transdisciplinary Vehicles of the Future (1991) The Identity of the United Nations Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors/L'identité des Nations Unies articulée par un système dynamique de métaphores (1991) A Middle Eastern Identity Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1991) A Commonwealth Identy Articulated by a Dynamic System of Metaphors (1991) Guiding Metaphors and Configuring Choices (1991) The Aesthetics of Governance in the Year 2491 (1991) Recontextualizing Social Problems through Metaphor: transcending the "switch" metaphor (1990) Innovative Global Management through Metaphor (1989) Cooperation and its Failures (from the 1960s through the 1980s): 12 metaphors towards understanding the dilemma of the 1990s (1989) Through Metaphor to a Sustainable Ecology of Development Policies (1989) Metaphoric Revolution: in quest of a manifesto for governance through metaphor (1988) Reordering of Networks of Incommensurable Concepts in Phased Cycles: and their comprehension through metaphor (1988) Governance through Metaphor (1987) Comprehension of Appropriateness (1986) Metaphors of Alternation: an exploration of their significance for development policy-making (1984) Forms of Presentation and the Future of Comprehension (1984) Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Moral Impotence (1981) The Future of Comprehension: conceptual birdcages and functional basketweaving (1982) Beyond Edge-bound Comprehension and Moral Impotence (1981) The Future of Comprehension: conceptual birdcages and functional basketweaving (1980) See also recent downloadable documents on this theme written by UIA staff members in a personal capacity [more] Return to top of page

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