This volume explores the ways in which civil society andgovernments employ transformative tactics of direct engagement in coordinatingefforts toward the common good. The chapters highlight alternatives that arephilosophically and pragmatically different from neoliberal austerity measures, which reduce coproduction to a cost-saving tactic. Instead of simplisticload-shedding and unfunded partnerships, collaborative governance andcoproduction increasingly take on characteristics of social movements, whereindirect citizen engagement in public policy making and administrativeimplementation are seen as the collective pursuit of human flourishing andabundance.
These approaches counter the statusquo - both in terms of power dynamics and standard operating procedures. Civilsociety is increasingly reclaiming its roots in the more informal mechanisms ofsocial movements. As governments reach out to engage these groups, they mustdevelop a new stance toward collaboration - one that sees power as a generativeforce when shared rather than held through hierarchical or competitivedominance. This book shows how, through this transformation, genuine public value can be produced.
Foreword: Toward a Politics of Belonging;
HendrikWagenaarIntroduction; MargaretStout
Chapter 1. Are Social Movements PrefiguringIntegrative Governance? JeannineM. Love and Margaret Stout
Chapter 2. Unsettling the Memes ofNeoliberal Capitalism through Administrative Pragmatism; C. F. Abel and Karen Kunz
Chapter 3. Cross-sector Collaborations forPublic Value Co-creation; AlessandroSancino, James Rees, and Irene Schindele
Chapter 4. Tackling Maternal Health throughCell Phones: Evaluating a Collaborative Framework; NidhiVij Mali
Chapter 5. Clarifying Collaborative Dynamics inGovernance Networks; Margaret Stout, Koen P. R. Bartels, andJeannine M. Love
Chapter6. A Typology of Coproduction: Emphasizing Shared Power; Victor Burigo Souza and Luís Moretto Neto
Chapter7. Get Talking: Managing to Achieve More through Creative Consultation; Nicola Gratton and Ros Beddows
Chapter8. Joining the Citizens: Forging New Collaborations betweenGovernment and Citizens in Deprived Neighborhoods; ImratVerhoeven 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 PublicAdministration at West Virginia University, USA. Her research can be found innumerous journals and books, including Logicsof Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis; A Radically Democratic Response to GlobalGovernance: Dystopian Utopias; and IntegrativeGovernance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises.