Co-production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

by Pestoff; Victor

• ISBN13: 9780415439633
• ISBN10: 0415439639
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Public management research has in recent years paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic in academic conferences of the EGPA and IRSPM. However, much of the discussion on its role is motivated at least as much by ideology as by fact. We still lack a proper empirical understanding of what happens when the third sector is drawn into public service provision. In this thematic presentation of Co-Production: The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services, we will try to enhance this understanding by presenting several new studies on the subject. We also introduce the concepts of co-production, co-management and co-governance as a conceptual framework that enables us to better understand such developments.

Table of Contents

Co-production, The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services: An Introduction	p. 1
Citizens and Co-Production of Welfare Services: Childcare in eight European countries	p. 11
Childcare, Co-Production and the Third Sector in Canada	p. 29
Co-Management in Public Service Networks: The organizational effects	p. 45
Co-Governance within Networks and the Non-Profit - For-Profit Divide: A cross-cultural perspective on the evolution of domiciliary elderly care	p. 59
The Emergence of Local Non-Profit - Government Partnerships and the Role of Intermediary Organizations in Japan: Contractual relationships and the limits to co-governance	p. 75
Reflections on the Market, Networking and Trust	p. 91
Patterns of Co-Production in Public Services: Some concluding thoughts	p. 99
Notes on Contributors	p. 105
Index	p. 107
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