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Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services : an introduction
Taco Brandsen,Victor Pestoff +1 more
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In this paper, the authors introduce the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables us to better understand the third sector's role in public service provision.Abstract:
In recent years, public management research has paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic conferences of the EGPA and IRSPM. However, much of the discussion on its role is motivated at least as much by ideology as by fact. We still lack a comprehensive empirical understanding of what happens when the third sector is drawn into public service provision. In this collection on Co-Production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services, we will try to enhance this understanding by presenting several new studies on the subject. We also introduce the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables us to better understand such developments.read more
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The New Public Governance? 1
TL;DR: More than a decade has passed since the publication of Christopher Hood's influential piece that codified the nature of the New Public Management (NPM) (Hood 1991).
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A Systematic Review of Co-Creation and Co-Production: Embarking on the social innovation journey
TL;DR: A systematic review of 122 articles and books (1987-2013) of co-creation/co-production with citizens in public innovation is presented in this article, where the authors analyze the objectives and outcomes of the process.
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From e-government to we-government: Defining a typology for citizen coproduction in the age of social media
TL;DR: A unified typology is proposed to support systematic analysis based on the overarching categories of “Citizen Sourcing,” “Government as a Platform,’ and “Do-It-Yourself Government” to demonstrate its use in leading U.S. government implementations.
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Co-production and the co-creation of value in public services: A suitable case for treatment?
TL;DR: A conceptualization of co-production that is theoretically rooted in both public management and service management theory is presented in this paper. But this conceptualization is limited to the case of public service reform.
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It takes Two to Tango? Understanding the Co-production of Public Services by Integrating the Services Management and Public Administration Perspectives
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of co-production of public services is proposed, which combines the insights from both public administration and services management theory to produce a novel typology.
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Crossing the great divide: Coproduction, synergy, and development
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present two cases where public officials play a major role in the process of coproduction, a process through which inputs from individuals who are not “in” the same organization are transformed into goods and services.
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Consumers as coproducers of public services: some economic and institutional considerations
Roger B. Parks,Paula C. Baker,Larry Kiser,Ronald J. Oakerson,Elinor Ostrom,Vincent Ostrom,Stephen L. Percy,Martha B. Vandivort,Gordon P. Whitaker,Rick K. Wilson +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of coproduction of public services has captured increased attention as a potential means of increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of local government, and the concept has been explored in an effort to sharpen the definition of that concept and add rigor to our understanding of the effects of COProduction in local service delivery and processes by which coproductive activity occurs.
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From public housing to the social market : rental policy strategies in comparative perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, Kemeny develops a conceptual framework to present a critical study of comparative rental markets, focusing on the process of maturation of cost rental housing and two policies for handling this which have been adopted by industrial societies.
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The third sector in Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the third sector in the European Union has been studied in the context of the Third Sector, the State, and the Civil Society, and what matters with respect to the Third sector.
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Griffins or Chameleons? Hybridity as a Permanent and Inevitable Characteristic of the Third Sector
TL;DR: The third sector is characterized by fragmentation, fuzziness, and constant change as discussed by the authors, and the borders of community, market, and state are equally difficult to define and are becoming more blurred, and the search for a valid empirical definition of the third sector must focus on the fringes of the domain where the hard cases can be found.