From Austerity to Abundance?

Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good

AvMargaret Stout

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del 6 i serien Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management

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This volume explores the ways in which civil society andgovernments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinatingefforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that arephilosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which reduce coproduction to a cost-saving tactic. Instead of simplisticload-shedding and unfunded partnerships, collaborative governance andcoproduction increasingly take on characteristics of social movements, whereindirect citizen engagement in public policy making and administrativeimplementation are seen as the collective pursuit of human flourishing andabundance.These approaches counter the statusquo - both in terms of power dynamics and standard operating procedures. Civilsociety is increasingly reclaiming its roots in the more informal mechanisms ofsocial movements. As governments reach out to engage these groups, they mustdevelop a new stance toward collaboration - one that sees power as a generativeforce when shared rather than held through hierarchical or competitivedominance. This book shows how, through this transformation, genuine public value can be produced.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:404 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Emerald Publishing Limited
ISBN:9781787144668

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Margaret Stout is an Associate Professor of PublicAdministration at West Virginia University, USA. Her research can be found innumerous journals and books, including Logicsof Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis; A Radically Democratic Response to GlobalGovernance: Dystopian Utopias; and IntegrativeGovernance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises.

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Scholars of public management describe some of the trends in the creative transformation of the public sector that are emerging from collaborative governance practices at all levels from the local to the international. Among the topics are unsettling the memes of neoliberal capitalism through administrative pragmatism, tackling maternal health through cell phones: evaluating a collaborative framework, clarifying collaborative dynamics in governance networks, joining the citizens: forging new collaborations between government and citizens in deprived neighborhoods, and encounters with an open mind: a relational grounding for neighborhood governance.

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Foreword: Toward a Politics of Belonging; HendrikWagenaarIntroduction; MargaretStoutChapter 1. Are Social Movements PrefiguringIntegrative Governance? JeannineM. Love and Margaret StoutChapter 2. Unsettling the Memes ofNeoliberal Capitalism through Administrative Pragmatism; C. F. Abel and Karen KunzChapter 3. Cross-sector Collaborations forPublic Value Co-creation; AlessandroSancino, James Rees, and Irene SchindeleChapter 4. Tackling Maternal Health throughCell Phones: Evaluating a Collaborative Framework; NidhiVij MaliChapter 5. Clarifying Collaborative Dynamics inGovernance Networks; Margaret Stout, Koen P. R. Bartels, andJeannine M. LoveChapter6. A Typology of Coproduction: Emphasizing Shared Power; Victor Burigo Souza and Luís Moretto NetoChapter7. Get Talking: Managing to Achieve More through Creative Consultation; Nicola Gratton and Ros BeddowsChapter8. Joining the Citizens: Forging New Collaborations betweenGovernment and Citizens in Deprived Neighborhoods; ImratVerhoeven and Evelien TonkensChapter 9. Encounters with an Open Mind:A Relational Grounding for Neighborhood Governance; Koen P.R. Bartels