Challenges to Public Value Creation

Authority, Process, and Complexity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-46029-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Public Sector Organizations

This volume examines fundamental questions about the public value of public decisions. More specifically, it seeks to assess whether all public decisions create public value, if it is possible to know what value for the public as a whole a government decision will create, and how government officials can justify their decisions in terms of public value. Leading experts bring a diverse array of perspectives on the normative, epistemological, and processual challenges to identifying, describing, measuring, and evaluating the public value claims that public officials often articulate in defending their decisions, and the results that citizens often seek. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy and public administration.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Brian J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 1: The Puzzle of Public Value, Public Authority, and Public Governance 

Chapter 2: The Challenge of Government 

Chapter 3: Searching for Sufficient Legitimacy to Make Policy Choices 

Chapter 4: The Cloud of Unknowing: The Theory and Practice of Public Value in Times of Extremity 

Chapter 5: Some Optimism About Public Governance 

Chapter 6: Public Value is Knowable, Public Value Creation is Not 

Chapter 7: Public Value, Knowability, and Legitimacy 

Part 2: The Complexities of Authority and Process in Defining and Creating Public Value in Particular Contexts 

Chapter 8: Creating Public Value Through Nonprofit Involvement in Service Delivery 

Chapter 9: Public Value Contestation in the Era of Fiscal Austerity and Crisis: Lessons from the State Takeover System in Michigan 

Chapter 10: Leading and Recognizing Public Value 

Chapter 11: Frontline Value Crafting: On the Micro-Creation of Public Value at the Street Level 

Chapter 12: Reception and Application of the Concept of Public Value in Latin America 

Part 3: Rethinking and Reshaping Processes and Authorities to Create Public Value 

Chapter 13: Unknowability, Heuristics, and Ethical Imperatives of Public Value Creation 

Chapter 14: Invulnerability as Public Value: A Micro-Level Approach for Public Value Creation, Implementation, and Evaluation 

Chapter 15: Developing Strategies for the Creation of Public Value: An Exercise in Futility?

Chapter 16: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Brian J. Cook is Emeritus Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Virginia Tech, USA. He served as chair of the Center for Public Administration and Policy from 2010 to 2014 and 2018 to 2019. He also served on the political science faculty at Clark University from 1984 to 2008.