1st Edition

Co-Production and Public Service Management Citizenship, Governance and Public Services Management

By Victor Pestoff Copyright 2019
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

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 providers that is essential for meeting a growing number of social challenges, since neither the... Read more

1. Rethinking Public Service Management and Renewing Democracy: Engaging



citizens as co-producers of public services





2. Beyond Exit & Voice in Enduring Welfare Services: Citizens as co-producers?





3. Empowering Parents as Co-producers of Childcare Services in Sweden





4. Citizens as Co-Producers of Welfare Services: Childcare in eight European countries



5. Citizens as Co-Producers of Personal Social Services in Sweden: Towards a



paradigm of democratic participation





6. Crucial Concepts for Understanding Co-production in Third Sector Social



Services and Health Care





7. Small Groups, Collective Action and the Sustainability of Co-production





8. Exploring Synergies between Social Enterprise, Social Innovation and Co-production: Key post–NPM concepts in public sector reforms





9. Co-production at the Crossroads of Public Administration Regimes: What role for



service users, providers and the third sector?





10. Co-production and Public Administration Regimes: Their impact on hybrid



organizations





11. Reframing Co-production: More definitions or different schools?





12. Co-production and the Third Sector in the 21st Century: New schools of democracy and participatory public service management

Biography

Victor A. Pestoff is Professor Emeritus in Political Science and currently Guest Professor at the Institute for Civil Society Studies at Ersta Skondal University College in Stockholm, Sweden

"Victor Pestoff has long been one of the leading writers and thinkers about co-production. His new book provides an exciting and challenging perspective for anyone interested in this topic. Highly recommended!" -Stephen P Osborne, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK.