From Austerity to Abundance?: Creative Approaches to Coordinating the Common Good Vol: 6
Margaret Stout
West Virginia University, USA
Margaret Stout
West Virginia University, USA
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781787144668
- Published:
- 12 Nov 2018
- Publisher:
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Dimensions:
- 224 pages - 152 x 229mm
- Series:
- Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management
Categories:
This volume explores the ways in which civil society and
governments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinating
efforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that are
philosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which reduce coproduction to a cost-saving tactic. Instead of simplistic
load-shedding and unfunded partnerships, collaborative governance and
coproduction increasingly take on characteristics of social movements, wherein
direct citizen engagement in public policy making and administrative
implementation are seen as the collective pursuit of human flourishing and
abundance.
These approaches counter the status
quo - both in terms of power dynamics and standard operating procedures. Civil
society is increasingly reclaiming its roots in the more informal mechanisms of
social movements. As governments reach out to engage these groups, they must
develop a new stance toward collaboration - one that sees power as a generative
force when shared rather than held through hierarchical or competitive
dominance. This book shows how, through this transformation, genuine public value can be produced.
Foreword: Toward a Politics of Belonging; Hendrik
Wagenaar
Introduction; Margaret
Stout
Chapter 1. Are Social Movements Prefiguring
Integrative Governance? Jeannine
M. Love and Margaret Stout
Chapter 2. Unsettling the Memes of
Neoliberal Capitalism through Administrative Pragmatism; C. F. Abel and Karen Kunz
Chapter 3. Cross-sector Collaborations for
Public Value Co-creation; Alessandro
Sancino, James Rees, and Irene Schindele
Chapter 4. Tackling Maternal Health through
Cell Phones: Evaluating a Collaborative Framework; Nidhi
Vij Mali
Chapter 5. Clarifying Collaborative Dynamics in
Governance Networks; Margaret Stout, Koen P. R. Bartels, and
Jeannine M. Love
Chapter
6. A Typology of Coproduction: Emphasizing Shared Power; Victor Burigo Souza and Luís Moretto Neto
Chapter
7. Get Talking: Managing to Achieve More through Creative Consultation; Nicola Gratton and Ros Beddows
Chapter
8. Joining the Citizens: Forging New Collaborations between
Government and Citizens in Deprived Neighborhoods; Imrat
Verhoeven and Evelien Tonkens
Chapter 9. Encounters with an Open Mind:
A Relational Grounding for Neighborhood Governance; Koen P.
R. Bartels
Margaret Stout is an Associate Professor of Public
Administration at West Virginia University, USA. Her research can be found in
numerous journals and books, including Logics
of Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis; A Radically Democratic Response to Global
Governance: Dystopian Utopias; and Integrative
Governance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises.
