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  • Digital Co-Production of Public Services

    Citizens, Challenges and Cases

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Ina Radtke, A. Paula Rodriguez Müller, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Policy, Administrative and Institutional Change series
    This timely book examines the function, efficacy, and emerging challenges of using digital co-production in public administrations as digital tools become increasingly prevalent in society.Contributors highlight several opportunities presented by the increased use of digital co-production, such as reducing information asymmetry, improving co-design, making participation more inclusive, and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Co-production

    The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen ...
    Public management research has in recent years 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 ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    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 possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • Social Vulnerability in European Cities

    The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis

    Edited by C. Ranci, T. Brandsen, S. Sabatinelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Focussing on 20 European urban contexts, this book provides an empirical analysis of the socio-economic transformations driving the emergence of new social risks and of the capacity of welfare policies. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Manufacturing Civil Society

    Principles, Practices and Effects

    Edited by T. Brandsen, W. Trommel, B. Verschuere ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Faced with falling social cohesion governments have sought to revitalise society by trying to reconstruct local communities, civil society and citizenship. As a result, civil society is increasingly brought within the realm of public management, subject to accountability and embedded in hierarchies the impact and origins of which this book explores ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Socializing Care

    Feminist Ethics and Public Issues

    by Joan Tronto, Nel Noddings, Eloise Buker, Selma Sevenhuijsen, Vivienne Bozalek, Amanda Gouws, Marie Minnaar-Mcdonald, Deborah Little, Fiona Robinson, Judith Stadtman Tucker, Cheryl Brandsen, Margaret Urban Walker ...
    Series series Feminist Constructions
    Criticism is often levied that care ethics is too narrow in scope and fails to extend to issues of social justice. Socializing Care attempts to dispel that criticism. Contributors to the volume demonstrate how the ethics of care factors into a variety of social policies and institutions, and can indeed be useful in thinking about a number of different social problems. Divided into two sections, ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Social Innovations in the Urban Context

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Sandro Cattacin, Adalbert Evers, Annette Zimmer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward. Our knowledge of its dynamics has ... Read more

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    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important ... Read more

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  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

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  • Managing Organizational Change in Public Services

    International Issues, Challenges and Cases

    Edited by Rune Todnem By, Calum Macleod ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Organizational Change & Development
    Forming part of the Understanding Organizational Change series, Managing Organizational Change in Public Services focuses on the organizational dimension of change management in public services. Combining aspects of change management theory with ‘real life’ practice in the form of organizational cases from different regions and sectors, this edited collection identifies and analyzes significant ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Globalization and Internationalization in Higher Education

    Theoretical, Strategic and Management Perspectives

    Edited by Dr Felix Maringe, Professor Nick Foskett ...
    Universities all over the world are increasingly recognising the challenges of globalization and the pressures towards internationalization. This collection draws together a wealth of international experience to explore the emerging patterns of strategy and practice in internationalizing Higher Education.Questions considered include:• How is the concept of globalization in the context of higher ... Read more

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