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Making Public Policy Decisions
Expertise, skills and experience
Av Damon Alexander, Jenny Lewis
Inbunden, 2014
2594 kr
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To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and motivates them. However, the current literature takes little account of this, preferring instead to frame …
Public Procurement as Secondary Policy
Axioms and Perspectives
Av Max Rolfstam
Inbunden, 2026
2519 kr
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The role of public procurement as a means to implement secondary policy has been increasingly emphasised in the last few decades. Besides being the primary sourcing instrument for public agencies, public procurement could be used to stimulate all kinds of new behaviour, including innovation, …
Co-Production and Co-Creation
Engaging Citizens in Public Services
Av Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
820 kr
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Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a …
Co-Production and Co-Creation
Engaging Citizens in Public Services
Av Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2519 kr
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Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a …
Ethics Management in the Public Service
A Sensory-based Strategy
Av Liza Ireni-Saban, Galit Berdugo
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Ethics Management in the Public Service offers a new perspective for ethics management in the Public Administration. The traditional approaches, relying on codified rules, regulations, and guidelines, have not yielded the results expected of them and have not managed to serve as an effective tool …
Projectification of the Public Sector
Av Damian Hodgson, Mats Fred m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
649 kr
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In recent decades, we have witnessed an increasing use of projects and similar temporary modes of organising in the public sector of nations in Europe and around the world. While for some this is a welcome development which unlocks entrepreneurial zeal and renders public services more flexible and …
Public Management in Times of Austerity
Av Eva Moll Sørensen, Hanne Foss Hansen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
774 kr
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Since 2008, the world has experienced an enormous decrease of wealth. By many measures the impact of the crisis was severe. The fall in GDP, the collapse of world trade, the rise in unemployment, and the credit slump reached bigger proportions than in any other crisis since World War II. Although …
Governing through Regulation
Public Policy, Regulation and the Law
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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Over the past forty years, numerous theoretical advances have been made. From Ayres’ and Braithwaite’s ground breaking work on ‘responsive regulation’, we have seen models of ‘smart regulation’, ‘regulatory governance’ and ‘regulatory capitalism’ emerge to capture the growing prevalence and …
Business and Government Relations in Africa
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new level. In the twenty-first century, the interests and operations of government and business inevitably intersect all over the African continent. No …
Local Participatory Governance and Representative Democracy
Institutional Dilemmas in European Cities
Av Nils Hertting, Clarissa Kugelberg
Häftad, 2019
752 kr
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Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citizens have emerged as remedies for a variety of problems faced by modern democracies, including political disaffection and insufficient capacity to deal …
Civic Engagement, Community-Based Initiatives and Governance Capacity
An International Perspective
Av Jurian Edelenbos, Astrid Molenveld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2519 kr
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This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues. It aims to include and compare cases from …
Reimagining Public Managers
Delivering Public Value
Inbunden, 2020
2752 kr
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Public value theory speaks to the co-creation of value between politicians, citizens, and public managers, with a focus on the public manager in terms of her contributions, initiatives, and limitations in value creation. But just who are public managers? Public value regularly treats the "public …
Public Service Logic
Creating Value for Public Service Users, Citizens, and Society Through Public Service Delivery
Inbunden, 2020
2519 kr
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This book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical work in this field, together with new empirical evidence from emerging research. Public Service Logic challenges the …
Public Service Logic
Creating Value for Public Service Users, Citizens, and Society Through Public Service Delivery
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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This book is based upon and extends the theoretical and empirical work of the author over the last decade. It integrates material deriving from his previous conceptual and empirical work in this field, together with new empirical evidence from emerging research. Public Service Logic challenges the …
Reimagining Public Managers
Delivering Public Value
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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Public value theory speaks to the co-creation of value between politicians, citizens, and public managers, with a focus on the public manager in terms of her contributions, initiatives, and limitations in value creation. But just who are public managers? Public value regularly treats the "public …
Civic Engagement, Community-Based Initiatives and Governance Capacity
An International Perspective
Av Jurian Edelenbos, Astrid Molenveld m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues. It aims to include and compare cases from …
Risk Management and Public Service Reform
Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services
Inbunden, 2023
2066 kr
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School education reform is a dynamic process. It takes place in the context of changing institutional structures including society, economy, politics, legislation, and technology. Yet, there can be poor awareness of risk, particularly social risk, and its management during this process and more …
Risk Management and Public Service Reform
Changing Governance and Funding Structures within School Education Services
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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School education reform is a dynamic process. It takes place in the context of changing institutional structures including society, economy, politics, legislation, and technology. Yet, there can be poor awareness of risk, particularly social risk, and its management during this process and more …
Crossing Boundaries in Public Policy and Management
Tackling the Critical Challenges
Av Luke Craven, Helen Dickinson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
718 kr
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This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational. In doing so, it tackles the question of boundary-spanning from four different angles, providing an in-depth investigation …
Co-Production and Public Service Management
Citizenship, Governance and Public Services Management
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This volume compiles a dozen essays, by one of the most prolific proponents of co-production as a solution for many of the challenges facing public services and democratic governance at the outset of the 21st Century. Co-production is considered a partnership between citizens and public service …
Creating and Implementing Public Policy
Cross-sectoral debates
Av Gemma Carey, Kathy Landvogt m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
791 kr
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In order to address major social policy problems, governments need to break down sectoral barriers and create better working relationships between practitioners, policymakers and researchers. Currently, major blockages exist, and stereotypes abound. Academics are seen as out-of-touch and …
Social Procurement and New Public Governance
Av Josephine Barraket, Robyn Keast m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
844 kr
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In recent years, the search for innovative, locally relevant and engaging public service has become the new philosophers’ stone. Social procurement represents one approach to maximising public spending and social value through the purchase of goods and services. It has gained increasing attention …
Professions, State and the Market
Medicine in Britain, the United States and Russia
Av Mike Saks
Häftad, 2020
814 kr
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This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market – and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice. In so doing, the book adopts a neo-Weberian perspective, in which professions are seen as a form of exclusionary social …
Making Governments Accountable
The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices
Häftad, 2020
814 kr
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Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing …
Networks and Collaboration in the Public Sector
Essential research approaches, methodologies and analytic tools
Av Joris Voets, Robyn Keast m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Networks and other collaborations are central to the public sector’s ability to respond to their diverse responsibilities, from international development and regional governance, to policy development and service provision. Great strides have been made toward understanding their formation, …
Public Service Management and Asylum
Co-production, Inclusion and Citizenship
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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Co-production occurs when citizens actively participate in the design and delivery of public services. The concept and its practice are of increasing interest among policymakers, public service managers and academics alike, with co-production often being described as a revolutionary solution to …
Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organization of Emergency Services
Av Paresh Wankhade, Leo McCann m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Critical Perspectives in Emergency Services Management makes an important contribution to the subject of emergency services management and to public administration and organization studies more generally. It critically assesses developments in emergency services management by examining the …
Public Policy, Governance and Polarization
Making Governance Work
Av David K. Jesuit, Russell Alan Williams
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Polarization is widely diagnosed as a major cause of the decline of evidence-based policy making and public engagement-based styles of policy making. It creates an environment where hardened partisan viewpoints on major policy questions are less amenable to negotiation, compromise or change. …
Modernizing the Public Sector
Scandinavian Perspectives
Av Irvine Lapsley, Hans Knutsson
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something different – a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘Scandinavian’ way of modernizing …
Inter-Organizational Collaboration by Design
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Although difficult, complicated, and sometimes discouraging, collaboration is recognized as a viable approach for addressing uncertain, complex and wicked problems. Collaborations can attract resources, increase efficiency, and facilitate visions of mutual benefit that can ignite common desires of …
