Tero Erkkilä - Böcker

This authoritative book examines the complex interplay between government, business, and civil society through the lens of public policy. It analyzes the role of hybridity in policy formation and diffusion, drawing on in-depth theoretical discussions alongside diverse case studies.Leading experts delve into the way public policies and agencies, private businesses, and local communities collaborate to work towards policy design, the governance of organizations, and mechanisms for value creation. Showcasing empirical examples from across Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas, chapters consider hybridity as a part of policy formation, as well as policies as a medium to govern hybridity. They highlight emerging opportunities and complexities in sectors such as health, security, and sustainability, ultimately emphasizing the importance of understanding hybridity in order to tackle the challenges and pressing social problems of the future.Public Policies for Hybrid Governance is a crucial resource for students and scholars of regulation and governance, public policy, public administration, and management. Its novel recommendations will also benefit policymakers, public organizations, public sector training institutions, social enterprises and business firms with a purpose.

This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and institutional policies and practices on economic performance, higher education, research and innovation.The book examines how governments around the world have embraced global models of world-class university, human capital and talent competition as essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining global policy scripts.

Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an introduction to central themes of public administration and related traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach for studying public institutions.

Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods explores how scholars of public administration and institutional politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual particularities of their research problems and considering the use of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an introduction to central themes of public administration and related traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach for studying public institutions.

This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. Itschapters on institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in Finland, and the European Ombudsman.

This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. Itschapters on institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in Finland, and the European Ombudsman.

Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings.