Synopses & Reviews
This new text provides a concise and internationalized restatement of the public value approach, an assessment of its impact to date - in theory and practice - and of its particular relevance to the challenges of public management in a time of crisis and austerity.
About the Author
JOHN BENINGTON is Emeritus Professor of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, UK; formerly the Founding Director of the Local Government Centre and then of the Institute of Governance and Public Management (IGPM), Warwick Business School.
MARK H. MOORE is the Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government, USA. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Social Enterprise Program at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University, USA.
Table of Contents
Public Value In Changing Times;
J. Benington &
M. H. MooreFrom Private Choice to Public Value; J. Benington
Privates, Publics, and Values; C. Crouch
Creating Public Value: The Theory of the Convention; N. Whiteside
Greening Public Value: The Sustainability Challenge; M. Swilling
Public Value, Deliberative Democracy, and the Role of Public Managers; L. Horner & W. Hutton
Choice and Marketing in Public Management: The Creation of Public Value?; R. Wensley & M. H. Moore
Public Value from Co-Production by Clients; J. Alford
Framing the Production of Health in terms of Public Value; J. Q. Tritter
Public Value Through Innovation and Improvement; J. Hartley
Sustaining Public Value Through Microfinance; G. Stuart
Re-defining 'Public Value' in New Zealand's Performance Management System; R. Norman
Effective Supply and Demand and the Measurement of Public Value; G. Mulgan
Learning, Social Inequality and Risk: A Suitable Case for Public Value?; B. Fryer
Public Value in Education: A Case Study; D. Winkley
Looking Ahead; M. H. Moore