Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World

by John M. Bryson (Editor), Barbara C. Crosby (Editor), Laura Bloomberg (Editor)

Overview

Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and applying the concepts of creating public value, public values, and the public sphere. It presents a framework and language for opening a constructive conversation on what governments, businesses, nonprofits, and citizens can achieve in a democracy that honors a broad range of public values.

Public officials, scholars, and citizens alike are engaged in an intense debate about the proper purpose, role, and size of government. In the midst of this debate is a growing concern that important public values are ignored by government reform efforts. This book explores the different definitions of public value and approaches to public value creation, discernment, measurement, and assessment. The text helps clarify the issues and demonstrates how the meaning of public value is intimately related to how it is theorized, operationalized, and measured.

The book examines the many alternatives for recognizing, measuring, and assessing public value and addresses the pros and cons of each approach. The result is a contribution to the ongoing dialogue about the virtues and limitations of a focus on the public sphere, public values, and how to create public value in the context of developing and implementing policies, programs, projects, and plans that ideally boost confidence in public institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781482214604
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/13/2015
Series:	Public Administration and Public Policy , #194
Pages:	431
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg

Table of Contents

Introduction. Public Value as a Contested Democratic Practice. Creating Public Value: Contributions of the New Civic Politics. Value of Voices, Voice of Values: Participatory and Value Representation in Networked Governance. Public Values, Citizen Science, and Transportation Planning: A Brief Inquiry. Effectuating Public Values by Institutional Design. Education Reform and Cross-Sectoral Financing: A Practice-Based Approach. Profiting from Public Value? The Case of Social Impact Bonds.
Coproduction of Public Values through Cross-Sector Implementation: A Multilevel Analysis of Community Reinvestment Outcomes in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program. CROSS-SECTOR COLLABORATIONS INTRODUCTION. Incentivizing Collaboration: An Experimental Analysis of Performance Information, Public Value Creation, and Public Values Promotion. Relational Contracting and Public Value: Public and Nonprofit Managers' Perspectives. Cross Sector Collaboration and Public-Private Partnerships: A Perspective on How Nonprofit Organizations Create Public Value in an Archetypical City in the United States. Paradoxes of Cross-Sector Partnerships: Public Value and Large-Scale Energy Innovation. PUBLIC VALUE CREATION: LOCAL TO GLOBAL INTRODUCTION. Recognizing Public Values at the Local Government Level: A Study of the All-America City Awards. Creating Public Value through Collaboration: Restoration and Preservation of Crissy Field. Using Economic Principles to Show How Extension Programs Create Public Value. Culturing Sport Mega Events: Leveraging Public Value. Creating Global Public Value. CONCLUSIONS. Conclusions.