Overview
- Brings together an outstanding range of the world's best scholars in the field of co-production
- Focuses on the theoretical and empirical debates around the co-production of public services and outcomes
- Highlights the evidence - and the evidence gaps - for the impact on public value of co-commissioning, co-design, co-delivery and co-assessment
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Definitions of Co-Production
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Disciplinary Roots of Co-production
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Different Perspectives on Co-production
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Co-commissioning of Public Services and Outcomes
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Keywords
- Co-production
- Public services
- Public value
- Citizens
- Consumers
- Third Sector
- Community development
- Public law
- Deliberative democracy
- Personalisation
- Personal health budgets
- Co-commissioning
- Healthcare services
- Social innovation
- Digital technologies
- Leadership
- Risk
- Governance
- Stakeholders
- Experimental methods
About this book
This Handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the movement towards co-production of public services and outcomes, a topic which has recently become one of the most intensely debated in public management and administration, both in practice and in the academic literature. It explores in depth the processes of co-commissioning, co-design, co-delivery and co-assessment as major approaches to co-production through citizen voice and citizen action and as key mechanisms in the co-creation of public value. The key debates in the field are fully explored in chapters from over 50 eminent authors in the field, who examine the roots of co-production in the social sciences, the growth of co-production in policy and practice, its implementation and management in the public domain, and its governance, including its negative aspects (the ‘dark side’ of co-production). A final section discusses different aspects of the future research agenda for co-production.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elke Loeffler is Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and Director of the non-profit organization Governance International. She has undertaken research and training programmes for the European Commission, OECD ,UNDP and many national governments and local authorities. She serves on the Editorial Boards of International Review of Administrative Sciences and Public Money and Management.
Tony Bovaird is Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Chief Executive of Governance International. He has advised the UK Parliament and government departments, Scottish and Welsh Governments and many public bodies. He has undertaken research for UK Research Councils, European Commission, OECD, and many UK and international public bodies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes
Editors: Elke Loeffler, Tony Bovaird
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53705-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53704-3Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53707-4Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53705-0Published: 23 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 728
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Social Policy, Public Administration, Citizenship, Governance and Government, Comparative Politics