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Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what
does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings
together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging
answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the
contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and
assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit
organizations, business, and citizens all have roles in the public
sphere. In so doing, they demonstrate the intimate link between
ideas of public value and public values and the ways scholars
theorize and measure them. They also add to ongoing debates over
what public value might mean, the nature of the most important
public values, and how we can practically apply these values. The
collection concludes with an extensive research and practice agenda
conceived to further the field and mainstream its ideas. Aimed at
scholars, students, and stakeholders ranging from business and
government to nonprofits and activist groups, Public Value and
Public Administration is an essential blueprint for those
interested in creating public value to advance the common good.
Creating Public Value in Practice: Advancing the Common Good in a
Multi-Sector, Shared-Power, No-One-Wholly-in-Charge World brings
together a stellar cast of thinkers to explore issues of public and
cross-sector decision-making within a framework of democratic civic
engagement. It offers an integrative approach to understanding and
applying the concepts of creating public value, public values, and
the public sphere. It presents a framework and language for opening
a constructive conversation on what governments, businesses,
nonprofits, and citizens can achieve in a democracy that honors a
broad range of public values. Public officials, scholars, and
citizens alike are engaged in an intense debate about the proper
purpose, role, and size of government. In the midst of this debate
is a growing concern that important public values are ignored by
government reform efforts. This book explores the different
definitions of public value and approaches to public value
creation, discernment, measurement, and assessment. The text helps
clarify the issues and demonstrates how the meaning of public value
is intimately related to how it is theorized, operationalized, and
measured. The book examines the many alternatives for recognizing,
measuring, and assessing public value and addresses the pros and
cons of each approach. The result is a contribution to the ongoing
dialogue about the virtues and limitations of a focus on the public
sphere, public values, and how to create public value in the
context of developing and implementing policies, programs,
projects, and plans that ideally boost confidence in public
institutions.
Governments and nonprofits exist to create public value. Yet what
does that mean in theory and practice? This new volume brings
together key experts in the field to offer unique, wide-ranging
answers. From the United States, Europe, and Australia, the
contributors focus on the creation, meaning, measurement, and
assessment of public value in a world where government, nonprofit
organizations, business, and citizens all have roles in the public
sphere. In so doing, they demonstrate the intimate link between
ideas of public value and public values and the ways scholars
theorize and measure them. They also add to ongoing debates over
what public value might mean, the nature of the most important
public values, and how we can practically apply these values. The
collection concludes with an extensive research and practice agenda
conceived to further the field and mainstream its ideas. Aimed at
scholars, students, and stakeholders ranging from business and
government to nonprofits and activist groups, Public Value and
Public Administration is an essential blueprint for those
interested in creating public value to advance the common good.
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