T Bovaird
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 324749 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T Bovaird |
| NOMBRES | T |
| APELLIDO | Bovaird |
| FIRMA | BOVAIRD T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4005-3599 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 340 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Breaking the glass in the ‘Overton Window’
This commentary responds to points raised by Johnson et al (2023) in 'Breaking the Overton Window: on the need for adversarial co-production
International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes
This study compares surveys of user and community co-delivery of prevention activities internationally, exploring both the level of co-delivery, as revealed by citizens, and the characteristics of those citizens most likely to co-produce. It draws upon a baseline survey of five EU countries in 2008, more recent updates from two of these countries in 2012 and 2014, and a similar survey in Australia in 2014. Although there are many differences in d…
From Participation to Co-production
In recent decades, governments have increasingly accepted the need to engage citizens in public decision-making and public services. This chapter traces the sources of this increased interest in public participation and user and community co-production. Our research suggests that they are important but still under-appreciated by policymakers. While public participation can be effective, even in countries where democracy is still not strong, it is…
Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance
Rising and changing citizen expectations, dire fiscal constraints, unfulfilled political aspirations, high professional ambitions, and a growing number of stubborn societal problems have generated an increasing demand for innovation of public policies and services. Drawing on the latest research, this book examines how current systems of public governance can be transformed in order to enhance public innovation. It scrutinizes the need for new ro…
Activating collective co-production of public services
Previous research has suggested that citizen co-production of public services is more likely when the actions involved are easy and can be carried out individually rather than in groups. This article explores whether this holds in local areas of England and Wales. It asks which people are most likely to engage in individual and collective co-production and how people can be influenced to extend their co-production efforts by participating in more…
Activating Citizens to Participate in Collective Co-Production of Public Services
User and community co-production of public services first became topical in the late 1970s, both in private and public sectors. Recent interest has been triggered by recognition that the outcomes for which public agencies strive rely on multiple stakeholders, particularly service users and the communities in which they live. Extra salience has been given to the potential of co-production due to fiscal pressures facing governments since 2008. Howe…
Attributing Outcomes to Social Policy Interventions – ‘Gold Standard’ or ‘Fool's Gold’ in Public Policy and Management
In recent years there has been increased interest in outcome‐based social policy‐making and management. The UK has been in the forefront of this movement but similar movements have been identified internationally. This interest in outcome‐based decision‐making has been given particular impetus through the ‘results’‐based movement in evaluation and performance management since the 1980s, which has increased in scope over time, slowly changing its …
Strategic Commissioning in the UK
This article explores the drivers of the development of strategic commissioning over the last two decades, its limitations, and the implications of its rapid spread. It suggests that the differences between government departments have allowed scope for local variations, which have been exploited by local government, leaving room for more innovation than would have been possible under an entirely ‘joined-up’ government agenda. The forms taken by t…
Correlates of Co-production
We employ data from an original survey of citizens in the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, and the Czech Republic to examine correlates of citizen co-production of public services in three key policy areas: public safety, the environment, and health. The correlates of co-production we consider include demographic factors (age, gender, education, and employment status), community characteristics (urban, non-urban), performance perceptions (how good a…
Learning from complex policy evaluations
Recognition of the importance of interactions between policies has fuelled demand for larger, longer-term, more holistic studies of their impacts and effectiveness. The broader perspective provided by evaluations of this kind appears to have been useful to policy makers, but their scale and complexity present practical and methodological challenges. Research funders need to commission and coordinate groups of studies rather than procuring researc…
More quality through competitive quality awards? An impact assessment framework
Given the growing international phenomenon of quality award competitions for public sector services and organizations it is timely to assess their impacts. While award schemes have become a popular marketing tool to increase the visibility of award organizers, it is unclear what impact they have on various dimensions of quality — organizational quality, service quality and the quality of life of citizens. So far, quality awards are a theory-free …
Civil Service Reform in the Uk, 1999–2005
In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally‐oriented ‘modernizing government’ programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service –‘step change’ rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements o…
Beyond Engagement and Participation
In recent years, there has been a radical reinterpretation of the role of policy making and service delivery in the public domain. Policy making is no longer seen as a purely top-down process but rather as a negotiation among many interacting policy systems. Similarly, services are no longer simply delivered by professional and managerial staff in public agencies but are coproduced by users and their communities. This article presents a conceptua…
Developing New Forms of Partnership With the ‘Market’ in the Procurement of Public Services
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding the key differences between newly emerging ‘market’ relationships and more traditional forms of procurement by public sector organizations. It highlights how multiple relationships between service clients in the public sector and other stakeholders mean that service clients may often co‐produce welfare changes in their communities in ways which professional and commercial providers ca…
Public governance
The emergence of governance as a key concept in the public domain is relatively recent, although the concerns which it embraces are age-old. This article traces the evolution of the concept and maps the contours of its current position in public administration. It suggests that ‘governance’ as a set of balancing mechanisms in a network society is still a contested concept, both in theory and in practice, but that there are already many attempts t…
Public–Private Partnerships
This article explores the current state of knowledge in relation to public–private partnerships (PPPs), taken to mean working arrangements based on a mutual commitment (over and above that implied in any contract) between a public sector organization with any organization outside of the public sector. Since it originally became fashionable over 25 years ago, the concept of PPPs has been strongly contested. However, PPPs are now to be found in the…
Evaluating the Quality of Public Governance
This article provides an overview for this special issue on the evaluation of the quality of public governance. It charts the move in the public sector during the 1990s from concern largely with excellence in service delivery to a concern for good governance. It examines what we mean by governance and 'good governance' and the dimensions of 'good public governance'. It demonstrates that there is now widespread interest in measuring not only the q…
Evaluating Public Management Reform
This article examines the major programme of research on the'Local Government Modernisation Agenda' which is currently being funded by the UK's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It argues that this heralds a new approach to government-funded research which seeks to address some of the weakness of previous evaluations. In particular it involves longer-term studies than have been conducted in the past and an attempt to achieve a much greater deg…
E-Government and e-Governance
This article suggests that e-government and e-governance initiatives can potentially have major organisational impacts through three major mechanisms: improved decision-making, more intensive and productive use of data bases, and better communications. These mechanisms impact on both the internal organisation of public agencies, their configuration of networks and partnerships. E-enablement therefore makes obsolete many existing organisational st…
Moving from Excellence Models of Local Service Delivery to Benchmarking ‘Good Local Governance’
The article starts by giving an overview of the drivers for local government reforms in OECD countries since the 1980s. It then explores recent trends in local government and community reforms in the UK and Germany. In the following section, the authors analyse whether the current benchmarking methods and criteria set within conventional models of 'excellence' in local government still meet the current needs of local communities. We argue that th…
Learning from international approaches to Best Value
English This article maps the genesis of BestValue from its antecedents in value-for-money approaches in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and in previous UK administrations, and probes what this foretells about its likely success. It locates BestValue in the intersection between the New Public Management (NPM) and community and local governance (CLG). The contract culture within NPM has been softened within BestValue, striking a balance bet…
The Role of Competition and Competitiveness in Best Value in England and Wales
The Best Value regime in England and Wales has already proven its worth during the pilot phase from 1997-2000 - it has led to distinctively different approaches in local government to consultation, to performance comparisons and performance review, and to partnership working. It appears that it has not yet made such obvious progress in the use of competitive mechanisms in best value authorities. However, this underplays the progress made since 19…
Performance Management and Organizational Learning
The Clashing Cultures of Marketing and Organizational Learning
It has became fashionable to recommend ‘marketing’ to any public sector organization in financial difficulties or suffering from an image problem. Yet there are important tensions between the culture of marketing, derived mainly from Anglo‐Saxon models of manufacturing management, and the ethos and practice of public service management. We build upon Senge's model of a learning organization to question whether the use of conventional marketing ap…
Re-engineering Public-sector Organizations
Public–Private Partnerships
This article explores the current state of knowledge in relation to public–private partnerships (PPPs), taken to mean working arrangements based on a mutual commitment (over and above that implied in any contract) between a public sector organization with any organization outside of the public sector. Since it originally became fashionable over 25 years ago, the concept of PPPs has been strongly contested. However, PPPs are now to be found in the…
Evaluating the Quality of Public Governance
This article provides an overview for this special issue on the evaluation of the quality of public governance. It charts the move in the public sector during the 1990s from concern largely with excellence in service delivery to a concern for good governance. It examines what we mean by governance and 'good governance' and the dimensions of 'good public governance'. It demonstrates that there is now widespread interest in measuring not only the q…
Public governance
The emergence of governance as a key concept in the public domain is relatively recent, although the concerns which it embraces are age-old. This article traces the evolution of the concept and maps the contours of its current position in public administration. It suggests that ‘governance’ as a set of balancing mechanisms in a network society is still a contested concept, both in theory and in practice, but that there are already many attempts t…
Activating Citizens to Participate in Collective Co-Production of Public Services
User and community co-production of public services first became topical in the late 1970s, both in private and public sectors. Recent interest has been triggered by recognition that the outcomes for which public agencies strive rely on multiple stakeholders, particularly service users and the communities in which they live. Extra salience has been given to the potential of co-production due to fiscal pressures facing governments since 2008. Howe…
Activating collective co-production of public services
Previous research has suggested that citizen co-production of public services is more likely when the actions involved are easy and can be carried out individually rather than in groups. This article explores whether this holds in local areas of England and Wales. It asks which people are most likely to engage in individual and collective co-production and how people can be influenced to extend their co-production efforts by participating in more…
Developing New Forms of Partnership With the ‘Market’ in the Procurement of Public Services
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding the key differences between newly emerging ‘market’ relationships and more traditional forms of procurement by public sector organizations. It highlights how multiple relationships between service clients in the public sector and other stakeholders mean that service clients may often co‐produce welfare changes in their communities in ways which professional and commercial providers ca…
Learning from international approaches to Best Value
English This article maps the genesis of BestValue from its antecedents in value-for-money approaches in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and in previous UK administrations, and probes what this foretells about its likely success. It locates BestValue in the intersection between the New Public Management (NPM) and community and local governance (CLG). The contract culture within NPM has been softened within BestValue, striking a balance bet…
Attributing Outcomes to Social Policy Interventions – ‘Gold Standard’ or ‘Fool's Gold’ in Public Policy and Management
In recent years there has been increased interest in outcome‐based social policy‐making and management. The UK has been in the forefront of this movement but similar movements have been identified internationally. This interest in outcome‐based decision‐making has been given particular impetus through the ‘results’‐based movement in evaluation and performance management since the 1980s, which has increased in scope over time, slowly changing its …
Civil Service Reform in the Uk, 1999–2005
In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally‐oriented ‘modernizing government’ programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service –‘step change’ rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements o…
Strategic Commissioning in the UK
This article explores the drivers of the development of strategic commissioning over the last two decades, its limitations, and the implications of its rapid spread. It suggests that the differences between government departments have allowed scope for local variations, which have been exploited by local government, leaving room for more innovation than would have been possible under an entirely ‘joined-up’ government agenda. The forms taken by t…
Moving from Excellence Models of Local Service Delivery to Benchmarking ‘Good Local Governance’
The article starts by giving an overview of the drivers for local government reforms in OECD countries since the 1980s. It then explores recent trends in local government and community reforms in the UK and Germany. In the following section, the authors analyse whether the current benchmarking methods and criteria set within conventional models of 'excellence' in local government still meet the current needs of local communities. We argue that th…
Learning from complex policy evaluations
Recognition of the importance of interactions between policies has fuelled demand for larger, longer-term, more holistic studies of their impacts and effectiveness. The broader perspective provided by evaluations of this kind appears to have been useful to policy makers, but their scale and complexity present practical and methodological challenges. Research funders need to commission and coordinate groups of studies rather than procuring researc…
Evaluating Public Management Reform
This article examines the major programme of research on the'Local Government Modernisation Agenda' which is currently being funded by the UK's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It argues that this heralds a new approach to government-funded research which seeks to address some of the weakness of previous evaluations. In particular it involves longer-term studies than have been conducted in the past and an attempt to achieve a much greater deg…
An evaluation of local authority employment initiatives
1981). An evaluation of local authority employment initiatives. Local Government Studies: Vol. 7, Unemployment and Economic Development, pp. 37-52
Re-engineering Public-sector Organizations
The Role of Competition and Competitiveness in Best Value in England and Wales
The Best Value regime in England and Wales has already proven its worth during the pilot phase from 1997-2000 - it has led to distinctively different approaches in local government to consultation, to performance comparisons and performance review, and to partnership working. It appears that it has not yet made such obvious progress in the use of competitive mechanisms in best value authorities. However, this underplays the progress made since 19…
Analysing Urban Economic Development
Local Economic Development and the City
Improved Performance in Local Economic Development
This article examines the extent to which changing approaches to performance management have had an impact on a range of agencies responsible for local economic development programmes in Britain. It explores the possibility that the effectiveness of public programmes could be more sharply highlighted and incorporated in the performance review of organizations. It demonstrates that major improvements have occurred but that overall the planning and…
Managing Urban Economic Development
Recent developments in output measurement in local government
1981). Recent developments in output measurement in local government. Local Government Studies: Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 35-53
E-Government and e-Governance
This article suggests that e-government and e-governance initiatives can potentially have major organisational impacts through three major mechanisms: improved decision-making, more intensive and productive use of data bases, and better communications. These mechanisms impact on both the internal organisation of public agencies, their configuration of networks and partnerships. E-enablement therefore makes obsolete many existing organisational st…
The Clashing Cultures of Marketing and Organizational Learning
It has became fashionable to recommend ‘marketing’ to any public sector organization in financial difficulties or suffering from an image problem. Yet there are important tensions between the culture of marketing, derived mainly from Anglo‐Saxon models of manufacturing management, and the ethos and practice of public service management. We build upon Senge's model of a learning organization to question whether the use of conventional marketing ap…
An evaluation of local authority employment initiatives
1981). An evaluation of local authority employment initiatives. Local Government Studies: Vol. 7, Unemployment and Economic Development, pp. 37-52
Recent developments in output measurement in local government
1981). Recent developments in output measurement in local government. Local Government Studies: Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 35-53
Improved Performance in Local Economic Development
This article examines the extent to which changing approaches to performance management have had an impact on a range of agencies responsible for local economic development programmes in Britain. It explores the possibility that the effectiveness of public programmes could be more sharply highlighted and incorporated in the performance review of organizations. It demonstrates that major improvements have occurred but that overall the planning and…
Local Economic Development and the City
Analysing Urban Economic Development
Managing Urban Economic Development
Re-engineering Public-sector Organizations
The Clashing Cultures of Marketing and Organizational Learning
It has became fashionable to recommend ‘marketing’ to any public sector organization in financial difficulties or suffering from an image problem. Yet there are important tensions between the culture of marketing, derived mainly from Anglo‐Saxon models of manufacturing management, and the ethos and practice of public service management. We build upon Senge's model of a learning organization to question whether the use of conventional marketing ap…
Performance Management and Organizational Learning
The Role of Competition and Competitiveness in Best Value in England and Wales
The Best Value regime in England and Wales has already proven its worth during the pilot phase from 1997-2000 - it has led to distinctively different approaches in local government to consultation, to performance comparisons and performance review, and to partnership working. It appears that it has not yet made such obvious progress in the use of competitive mechanisms in best value authorities. However, this underplays the progress made since 19…
Learning from international approaches to Best Value
English This article maps the genesis of BestValue from its antecedents in value-for-money approaches in the US, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and in previous UK administrations, and probes what this foretells about its likely success. It locates BestValue in the intersection between the New Public Management (NPM) and community and local governance (CLG). The contract culture within NPM has been softened within BestValue, striking a balance bet…
Moving from Excellence Models of Local Service Delivery to Benchmarking ‘Good Local Governance’
The article starts by giving an overview of the drivers for local government reforms in OECD countries since the 1980s. It then explores recent trends in local government and community reforms in the UK and Germany. In the following section, the authors analyse whether the current benchmarking methods and criteria set within conventional models of 'excellence' in local government still meet the current needs of local communities. We argue that th…
Evaluating the Quality of Public Governance
This article provides an overview for this special issue on the evaluation of the quality of public governance. It charts the move in the public sector during the 1990s from concern largely with excellence in service delivery to a concern for good governance. It examines what we mean by governance and 'good governance' and the dimensions of 'good public governance'. It demonstrates that there is now widespread interest in measuring not only the q…
Evaluating Public Management Reform
This article examines the major programme of research on the'Local Government Modernisation Agenda' which is currently being funded by the UK's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. It argues that this heralds a new approach to government-funded research which seeks to address some of the weakness of previous evaluations. In particular it involves longer-term studies than have been conducted in the past and an attempt to achieve a much greater deg…
E-Government and e-Governance
This article suggests that e-government and e-governance initiatives can potentially have major organisational impacts through three major mechanisms: improved decision-making, more intensive and productive use of data bases, and better communications. These mechanisms impact on both the internal organisation of public agencies, their configuration of networks and partnerships. E-enablement therefore makes obsolete many existing organisational st…
Public–Private Partnerships
This article explores the current state of knowledge in relation to public–private partnerships (PPPs), taken to mean working arrangements based on a mutual commitment (over and above that implied in any contract) between a public sector organization with any organization outside of the public sector. Since it originally became fashionable over 25 years ago, the concept of PPPs has been strongly contested. However, PPPs are now to be found in the…
Public governance
The emergence of governance as a key concept in the public domain is relatively recent, although the concerns which it embraces are age-old. This article traces the evolution of the concept and maps the contours of its current position in public administration. It suggests that ‘governance’ as a set of balancing mechanisms in a network society is still a contested concept, both in theory and in practice, but that there are already many attempts t…
Developing New Forms of Partnership With the ‘Market’ in the Procurement of Public Services
This article provides a conceptual framework for understanding the key differences between newly emerging ‘market’ relationships and more traditional forms of procurement by public sector organizations. It highlights how multiple relationships between service clients in the public sector and other stakeholders mean that service clients may often co‐produce welfare changes in their communities in ways which professional and commercial providers ca…
Civil Service Reform in the Uk, 1999–2005
In December 1999, the UK Civil Service Management Board agreed an internal reform programme, complementing the more externally‐oriented ‘modernizing government’ programme, to bring about major changes in the functioning of the civil service –‘step change’ rather than continuous improvement. This paper suggests that the aims of the reform programme were only partially achieved. While some step changes did indeed occur, even such central elements o…
Beyond Engagement and Participation
In recent years, there has been a radical reinterpretation of the role of policy making and service delivery in the public domain. Policy making is no longer seen as a purely top-down process but rather as a negotiation among many interacting policy systems. Similarly, services are no longer simply delivered by professional and managerial staff in public agencies but are coproduced by users and their communities. This article presents a conceptua…
More quality through competitive quality awards? An impact assessment framework
Given the growing international phenomenon of quality award competitions for public sector services and organizations it is timely to assess their impacts. While award schemes have become a popular marketing tool to increase the visibility of award organizers, it is unclear what impact they have on various dimensions of quality — organizational quality, service quality and the quality of life of citizens. So far, quality awards are a theory-free …
Learning from complex policy evaluations
Recognition of the importance of interactions between policies has fuelled demand for larger, longer-term, more holistic studies of their impacts and effectiveness. The broader perspective provided by evaluations of this kind appears to have been useful to policy makers, but their scale and complexity present practical and methodological challenges. Research funders need to commission and coordinate groups of studies rather than procuring researc…
Correlates of Co-production
We employ data from an original survey of citizens in the UK, France, Germany, Denmark, and the Czech Republic to examine correlates of citizen co-production of public services in three key policy areas: public safety, the environment, and health. The correlates of co-production we consider include demographic factors (age, gender, education, and employment status), community characteristics (urban, non-urban), performance perceptions (how good a…
Attributing Outcomes to Social Policy Interventions – ‘Gold Standard’ or ‘Fool's Gold’ in Public Policy and Management
In recent years there has been increased interest in outcome‐based social policy‐making and management. The UK has been in the forefront of this movement but similar movements have been identified internationally. This interest in outcome‐based decision‐making has been given particular impetus through the ‘results’‐based movement in evaluation and performance management since the 1980s, which has increased in scope over time, slowly changing its …
Strategic Commissioning in the UK
This article explores the drivers of the development of strategic commissioning over the last two decades, its limitations, and the implications of its rapid spread. It suggests that the differences between government departments have allowed scope for local variations, which have been exploited by local government, leaving room for more innovation than would have been possible under an entirely ‘joined-up’ government agenda. The forms taken by t…
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