Public Governance Paradigms

Torfing, Jacob; Klausen, Kurt; Andersen, Lotte Bøgh; Greve, Carsten

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“…Arguably, this paradigm asks the most of public servants as professionals. They need to master a broad set of technical skills and expertise (i.e., their own profession complemented with, among others, relevant management and economic knowledge) to be able to operate effectively in a decentralized setting, and they need to understand and adhere to a wide range of public values to be able to deliver public services in a manner that enhances the capacity of service receivers to become self-authoring (Torfing et al, 2020). In sum, in the balancing act of merging narrow and broad professionalism, New Public Management may tip the balance toward narrow professionalism at the expense of broad professionalism; New Public Governance may tip the balance toward broad professionalism at the expense of narrow professionalism; and Post-Bureaucracy may strike the right balance but at the expense of asking more of public servants than what they can reasonably deliver.…”

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Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zealand G-REG Qualifications Framework

Heijden

2020

Administration & Society

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For many years, governments around the globe have been called on to increase the professionalism of their public services. The New Zealand Government Regulatory Practice Initiative (G-REG) is an illustrative example of a network of government agencies responding to this call by providing a program of standardized training for public servants. This article maps, explores, and interrogates this example to obtain a better understanding of whether a standardized program can help to nurture and increase the professionalism of a community of public servants. It finds that the main challenge of such an undertaking is finding a balance between narrow professionalism (technical expertise and knowledge) and broad professionalism (acting proficiently and ethically).

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Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zealand G-REG Qualifications Framework

Heijden

2020

Administration & Society

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“…The ‘new’ public governance refers to a variety of new emphases on: network-centred approaches, as opposed to both NPM market-driven approaches and ‘antiquated’ hierarchy-centred approaches; collaborations, especially between public sector and third-sector organisations and more broadly at the state-society interface, rather than relying only on government-centred service delivery; and, clusters of actors becoming centre stage. This gave rise to a range of ‘governance quasi-paradigms’ (Torfing et al., 2020) – forms of collaborative governance and new models in policy-making and service delivery centred on the co-production of public services, the co-design and co-implementation of public policies and the co-creation of new solutions to public problems (Osborne, 2010; Torfing et al., 2012).…”

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Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

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Baker

2020

Public Policy and Administration

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the defining policy challenges of an era. In this article, we sketch some possible ways in which the public policy and administration community can make an enduring contribution about how to cope with this terrible crisis. We do so by offering some elements that delineate a tentative research agenda for public policy and administration scholars, to be pursued with epistemic humility. We outline the contours of seven analytical themes that are central to the challenges presented by COVID-19: policy design and instruments, policy learning, public service and its publics, organisational capacity, public governance, administrative traditions and public sector reforms in multi-level governance (MLG). The list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive to COVID-19. The knowledge we can generate must speak not only to the daunting challenge of COVID-19 itself but also to policymakers, and indeed humankind, trying to cope with future unexpected but high impact threats, by leveraging better public policies and building administrative capacities to enable more resilient, equitable and effective public services.

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“…Co-production and co-creation are both gaining ground at the public service production level. However, most public services are still designed and produced by bureaucratic and professionalized public agencies with little contribution from service users, citizens, and volunteers [ 7 ].…”

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Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review

Åkerblom

Ness

2021

PLoS ONE

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Worldwide, there is a growing interest to employ people with lived experiences in health and social services. Particularly in mental health and addiction services, individuals with lived experience of mental health problems enter the workplace as peer support workers (PSW´s). Their aim in the services is to bring in the perspective of service users in interactive processes at the micro and macro levels. The services´ ability to exploit the knowledge from PSW´s lived experiences will influence both the content and quality of the services, its effectiveness and its capacity to innovate and change. The concepts of co-production and co-creation are used to describe these interactive processes in the services in the literature. While co-production is aimed at improving individual services, co-creation seeks to develop service systems. This scoping review aims to provide an overview of the research status of PSW´s different involvement, in co-production and co-creation, in public mental health and addiction services. Studies describing PSW´s involvement in co-production and co-creation will be contrasted and compared. Knowledge about PSW´s involvement in co-production and co-creation is vital for understanding and further developing these interactive processes with PSW´s. The studies reviewed will describe PSW´s different types of involvement in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services or across organizational and institutional boundaries. The research question is: How are peer support workers involved in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services, and what are the described outcomes? Literature searches are conducted in Medline, PsycINFO, Embase, Oria, WorldCat, Google Scholar, Scopus, Academic Search Elite, Cinahl, and Web of Science, from the inception of each database to January 4, 2021. Expected results are that PSW´s are often described as a frontline worker who spends most of their working hours in a joint effort to co-produce with service users. Fewer studies describe PSW´s involved in interactive processes to re-design or transform public services systems. It is anticipated that this scoping review will increase the knowledge of the services’ abilities to exploit PSW´s expertise and inform policy and research.

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Public Governance Paradigms

Cited by 120 publications

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Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zealand G-REG Qualifications Framework

Balancing Narrow and Broad Public Service Professionalism: Experience With the New Zealand G-REG Qualifications Framework

Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

Peer support workers in co-production and co-creation in public mental health and addiction services: Protocol for a scoping review

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