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Co-production in Political Science and Public Administration

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This chapter describes the origin of the co-production concept in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the literature of political science and public administration in the United States. It explains why attention to the concept garnered interest and momentum through the 1980s but then declined, only to be reinvigorated by scholarship from across the globe in the mid-2000s. The chapter explores why this interest renewed and how co-production has become a major approach for research and practice in political science and public administration.

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    Jeffrey L. Brudney

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Brudney, J.L. (2021). Co-production in Political Science and Public Administration. In: Loeffler, E., Bovaird, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53705-0_3

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