New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

ISBN-13: 9780415897136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 422 str.

Victor Alexis Pestoff; Taco Brandsen; Bram Verschuere

Opis

This study addresses the nexus of issues and disciplines interested in co-production, and through them it makes a contribution to the development of the disciplines that focus on public management.

Spis treści

1. Co-Production as a Maturing Concept Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff and Bram Verschuere  Part 1: What Is Co-Production? Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives  2. Co-Production and Third Sector Social Services in Europe: Some Crucial Conceptual Issues Victor Pestoff  3. From Engagement to Co-Production: How Users and Communities Contribute To Public Services Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler  4. Co-Production: Contested Meanings and Challenges for User Organizations Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers  5. Third Sector and the Co-Construction of Canadian Public Policy Yves Vaillancourt  6. From Co-Production to Co-Governance John M. Ackerman  Part 2: How Does Co-Production Work?  7. Co-Production from a Normative Perspective Edgar S. Cahn and Christine Gray  8. Co-Production and Network Structures in Public Education David O. Porter  9. The Conditions for Successful Co-Production in Housing: A Case Study of German Housing Cooperatives Taco Brandsen and Jan-Kees Helderman  10. Co-Production in an Information Age Albert Meijer  Part 3: How Does Co-Management Work?  11. Co-Management to Solve Homelessness: Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast, Jennifer Waterhouse, Glen Murphy and Myrna Mandell  12. Co-Management in Urban Regeneration: New Perspectives on Transferable Collaborative Practice Hans Schlappa  13. ‘Don’t Bite The Hand That Feeds You?’ On The Partnerships between Private Citizen Initiatives and Local Government Karolien Dezeure and Filip De Rynck  14. Co-Producing Safety or Participative Window Dressing? Regulation Partnerships in German Local Governance Arrangements Matthias Freise  15. The Potential of Nonprofit-Government Partnerships for Promoting Citizen Involvement Ichiro Tsukamoto  Part 4: Effects Of Co-Production: Service Quality, Accountability and Democracy  16. Co-Production and Service Quality: A New Perspective for the Swedish Welfare State Johan Vamstad  17. Co-Production: An Alternative to the Partial Privatization Processes in Italy and Norway Andrea Calabrò  18. The Challenges of Co-Management for Public Accountability: Lessons From Flemish Childcare Diederik Vancoppenolle and Bram Verschuere  19. New Public Governance, Co-Production and Third Sector Social Services in Europe: Crowding In and Crowding Out Victor Pestoff  20. Conclusion: Taking Research on Co-Production a Step Further Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere and Victor Pestoff

O autorze

Victor A. Pestoff is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and currently Guest Professor at the Institute for Civil Society Studies at Ersta Skondal University College in Stockholm, Sweden. He has over 35 years of research on the Third Sector, its role in public policy and providing social services. His latest books are A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State (2009), and together with Taco Brandsen (eds) Co-Production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services (2008 & 2009), both at Routledge: London & New York. Taco Brandsen is Associate Professor in Public Administration at the Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His current research focuses on public services, innovation, governance and civil society. His latest books are Civicness in the Governance and Delivery of Social Services (2010, with Paul Dekker & Adalbert Evers), The Future of Governance in Europe and the US (2010, with Marc Holzer) and Co-Production. The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services (Routledge, 2008 & 2009, with Victor Pestoff). Bram Verschuere is Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Public Administration of University College Ghent (Ghent University Association), Belgium. His main research and teaching interests are in public management, public sector organization, state-nonprofit relationships, and welfare policy. His latest books are Autonomy and Control of State Agencies: Comparing States and Agencies (2010, with Koen Verhoest, Paul Roness, Kristin Rubecksen and Muiris McCarthaigh), and Re-thinking the State: Critical Perspectives on the Citizen, Politics and Government in the 21st Century (2009, with Filip De Rynck and Ellen Wayenberg).