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Title Innovations in public governance / edited by Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, Stephen J. Bailey, Pekka Valkama
Published Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Series Innovation and the public sector, 1871-1073 ; v. 15
Innovation and the public sector ; v. 15.
Contents Title Page; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Contents; Innovations in Public Governance in the Western World; Putting Public Governance Innovation into Perspective: From Administrative Reform to Innovation Discourse; The New Challenge to Economic Governance: The Digital Transformation of Services; The Evolving Governance of Public Services in England: Extending Competition, Choice, Co-design and Co-production; Innovation in the Microfoundations of Governance: Explaining the Flaws in the UK New Labour Government's Reform of Public Services
Reform Begets Reform: How Governments Have Responded to the New Public ManagementState-Level Health Care Reform and Innovation in the United States: the Experience of Massachusetts; Networked Public Administration for Better Service: New Production Model for Local Service Delivery in Germany; New User-driven Innovation Policy: The Key to Finnish Local Government Service Reform; Innovations in Democratic Governance; Three Faces of E-Government: Innovation, Interaction, and Governance; Citizen-centric E-Governance and Innovative Developments of Public Services; Subject Index; Author Index
Summary This publication provides a contextual view of innovations in public governance. Public governance is about coordination and the use of various forms of institutional arrangements in policy-making processes to pursue the common good. In practice, the improvements and radical changes in governance structures and processes are met through "governance innovations", which vary from radical large-scale national reforms to various organizational innovations and new e-enabled governance models. Understanding and managing such innovation processes are among the most burning issues in public
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Public administration.
Organizational change.
Public administration -- Technological innovations
Organizational Innovation
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Executive Branch.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
Organizational change
Public administration
Public administration -- Technological innovations
Form Electronic book
Author Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko
Bailey, S. J. (Stephen James), 1951-
Valkama, Pekka
IOS Press.
LC no. 2011925299
ISBN 9781607507277
1607507277
1607507269
9781607507260