Collaboration in public service delivery : : promise and pitfalls /

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Collaboration in public service delivery : : promise and pitfalls / / edited by Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh.

"The growing intensity and complexity of public service has spurred policy reform efforts across the globe, many featuring attempts to promote more collaborative government. Collaboration in Public Service Delivery sheds light on these efforts, analysing and reconceptualising the major types of...

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Kekez, Anka,
Howlett, Michael,
Ramesh, M.,
Edward Elgar Publishing,
Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (360 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Part I: Introduction: The promise of collaborative public service delivery
  • 1. Collaboration in public service delivery: What, when and how / Anka Kekez, Michael Howlett and M Ramesh
  • 2. Collaboration: Key concepts / Chris Ansell
  • Part II: Types of collaboration for public service delivery: Critical capacities and implementation challenges
  • 3. Consultation as collaboration? / Genevieve Fuji Johnson and Robert Howsam
  • 4. Contracting out as a governance mechanism: The case of national health insurance in India / Maurya Dayashankar And M Ramesh
  • 5. From procurement to the commissioning of public services / Andrea Migone
  • 6. Impact of state - civil society co-management contracts on water supply in rural India: Evidence from a natural experiment / Namrata Chindarkar, Yvonne Jie Chen and Dennis Wichelns
  • 7. Co-production with citizens: Demarcating the mode of collaboration by looking 'from outside in' / William Voorberg and Ingmar Van Meerkerk
  • 8. Certification: Implementation challenges in private-social partnerships / Joanna Vince
  • Part III: Governance of collaboration: Pathways and potential pitfalls
  • 9. Top-down versus bottom-up pathways to collaboration between governments and citizens: Reflecting on different participation traps / Ingmar van Meerkerk
  • 10. Problems of bottom-up collaboration: Evolutionary pathways and capacity challenges of NSMD governance institutions / Benjamin Cashore
  • 11. Outcome-based commissioning: Four pathways to achieving public value / Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler
  • 12. Problems of captured collaboration: From political to politicized metagovernance / Anka Kekez and Andrija Henjak
  • Part IV: Conclusion: Bolstering the governance capacities for collaborative public service delivery
  • 13. The need to design collaboration: Improving the effectiveness of commissioning with design thinking / Michael Mintrom and Madeline Thomas
  • 14. General theory for managing contracts in public service delivery: Towards collaborative contractual frameworks / Isha Dayal
  • 15. Coping with the implementation challenge: Decision-making strategies and their implications for collaborative governance / Lihi Lahat and Neta Sher-Hadar
  • Index.

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