Designing Public Policy for Co-production : : Theory, Practice and Change / / Catherine Durose, Liz Richardson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Durose, Catherine,; Richardson, Liz,
• MitwirkendeR: Bartley, Paul,; Blume, Toby,; Bracy, Fawn,; Burall, Simon,; Caldwell, Hillary,; Córdova, Teresa,; Downs, Anthony,; Gonzales, Moises,; Greene, Cory,; Haldipur, Jan,; Hassan, Prakriti,; Howell, Michaela,; Hughes, Tim,; Jones, Phil,; Lone, Amina,; Lorne, Colin,; Manoff, Einat,; McCabe, Paul,; Rose, Maura,; Rutherfoord, Robert,; Sheppard, Nadine,; Silver, Dan,; Speed, Chris,; Spurling, Lucy,; Steele, Jess,; Stoudt, Brett G.,; Torre, María Elena,; Wilkinson, Katy,; Wilkinson, Margaret,; Yates, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (176 p.)

This important book is a response to crises of public policy. Offering an original contribution to a growing debate, the authors argue that traditional technocratic ways of designing policy are inadequate to cope with increasingly complex challenges, and suggest co-production as a more democratic alternative. Drawing on 12 compelling international contributions from practitioners, policy makers, activists and actively engaged academics, ideas of power are used to explore how genuine democratic involvement in the policy process from those outside the elites of politics can shape society for the better. The authors present insights on why and how to generate change in policy processes, arguing for increased experimentation in policy design. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and students in public policy, public administration, sociology and politics.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on the authors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Why is redesign of public policy needed? -- Possibilities for policy design -- Conventional policy design -- Co-productive policy design -- Challenges and change within conventional policy design -- Can crisis ever be good for policy design? -- Challenges in policy redesign -- The hidden politics of policy design -- Designing policy for localism -- Creative disruption for cultural change -- Vision in co-productive policy design -- Establishing principles for value-driven practice -- Doing politics to build power and change policy -- Participatory action research and policy change -- Grammar in co-productive policy design -- Using technology to help communities shout louder -- Generating community conversations -- Policy design as co-design -- Using mediation to resolve conflict -- Debating co-productive policy design -- Governance for co-productive policy designs -- Co-producing research -- References -- Index