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- Barry, Jim, et al.
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Movement and change in the public sector : Bringing social movements into the analysis
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:3, s. 433-448
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay seeks to develop a theoretical framework for public-sector managerial change that draws on social movement theory, an approach located within the domain of political sociology. The essay opens with a brief examination of the literature on the New Public Management and governance which, it is argued, draws on a neo-liberal agenda, displays a tendency to de-centre or marginalize considerations of democracy and politics and offers abstract, top – down, descriptions of change. Approaches to social movement theory are considered, with particular attention paid to two dominant schools: the political process approach and new social movement theory which account for ‘how’ and ‘why’ change occurs. By operating through grass-roots networks, and offering symbolic challenges to the dominant neo-liberal order, social movements help us to see more clearly the limitations of conventional wisdom on public-sector managerial change, and consider resistances, accommodations and messy compromises. The essay seeks to use such insights to re-conceptualize public-sector managerial change.
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- Brandsen, T., et al.
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Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services - An introduction
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:4, s. 493-501
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In recent years, public management research has paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic conferences of the EGPA and IRSPM. However, much of the discussion on its role is motivated at least as much by ideology as by fact. We still lack a comprehensive empirical understanding of what happens when the third sector is drawn into public service provision. In this collection on Co-Production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services, we will try to enhance this understanding by presenting several new studies on the subject. We also introduce the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables us to better understand such developments.
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- Jonsson, Leif, 1945-
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Ideas on Organizing Municipaities
- 2008
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 10:4, s. 539-558
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last two decades, the question of organizing has been a matter of great interest in many Swedish municipalities and remain so today. What are the ideas behind the way municipalities organize themselves an how are the ideas related to the municipality context? This is th focus of this article, The discussion is based on a broad study of organizing activities in four municipalities. The ideas of organizing identified in the study are analysed in two institutional dimensions related to contextual circumstances. The first covers the way the ideas are influenced by two ways of thinking, termed respectively political and administrative logic. The second dimension covers ´the way the ideas are affected by local and national thinking. We show how these ddimensions influence organizing.
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- Lindencrona, Fredrik, et al.
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Modes of Interaction and Performance of Human Service Networks : A study of refugee resettlementsupport in Sweden
- 2009
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 11:2, s. 191-215
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Performance in health and human service networks requires mutual adjustment between participating organizations with different competencies. In this article the impact of group modes of interaction concerning administration and steering and direct service delivery upon different dimensions of network performance and client outcomes is tested in a sample of eighty-three local networks of refugee resettlement support in Sweden. The results show that networks with group modes of interaction concerning both issues generally perform best, but the effect varies across performance dimensions, is modified by availability of needed competence in the network and does not easily translate to client outcomes.
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- Pestoff, Victor
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Citizens and Co-Production of Welfare Services : Childcare in eight European countries
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:4, s. 503-519
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A growing number of scholars question the sustainability of liberal representative democracy and a welfare state dominated by the big organizations in both the public and private sectors. The state is over extended and democracy is stretched to its limits. Walzer proposes to democratize the means of distributing welfare services by greater citizen involvement, while Hirst calls for devolving many of the functions of the state to civil society. However, missing from such macro proposals is a micro perspective of citizens co-producers. The first part of this presentation introduces the concept of co-production, with a focus on greater citizen participation in the provision of public services. A review of the literature demonstrates several advantages of co-production, but also some major hurdles. The second part ties the concept of co-production to a discussion of parents' participation in the provision of childcare services in Europe. Finally, the importance of co-production for promoting the development and renewal of democracy and the welfare state is discussed.
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- Pestoff, Victor, et al.
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Patterns of co-production in public services - Some concluding thoughts
- 2006
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Ingår i: Public Management Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1471-9037 .- 1471-9045. ; 8:4, s. 591-595
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on the roles of the third sector in the delivery of public services has so far been scattered. However, there is much to learn from drawing the different manifestations of third-sector involvement together, as each represents an element of the third sector within the public services, expressed in different ways. An interesting question for research and practice is how different combinations of such elements are and should be embedded, given the variations in national structures of service provision. The studies presented in this collection have offered a stepping-stone in progressing towards an answer. Here we offer some suggestions for a future research agenda. These concern, respectively, the relationships between different roles of the third sector, links with the analysis of welfare state reform and the function of co-production.
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