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A Critical Interpretation
Laura Cataldi
Published online:

23 January 2024

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29 February 2024
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This Element focuses on New Public Governance as one of the major administrative narratives of our times. It offers a critical interpretation of NPG as a hybrid tool for management, governance, and reform, arguing that NPG coexists with and is likely to gradually merge into New Public Management. Several arguments support the 'continuity and hybridization' hypothesis, whereby the transition from NPM to NPG occurred through the retention of key elements and a layering and sedimentation process. These arguments challenge the “linear substitution” hypothesis, accounting for NPM's persistence and dominance. The Element develops a new interpretation of NPG and discusses the challenges that NPG poses. Finally, it shows that exploring hybridity is critical for evaluating the potential of NPG in terms of a shift in public administration and understanding governance trajectories and reform scenarios.

1 - A New Public Governance Based on Co-creation
Christopher Ansell, University of California, Berkeley, Jacob Torfing, Roskilde Universitet, Denmark
Book:

Public Governance as Co-creation

Published online:

21 May 2021

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10 June 2021, pp 1-32
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The chapter provides an initial definition of co-creation and explains why co-creation is a new and powerful vision. It proceeds to reflect on the current demands and possibilities for co-creation and then identifies the main enablers, before concluding with brief discussion of the wider perspectives and consequences of a turn to co-creation.

Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises: A New Public Governance Perspective
YANTO CHANDRA, LIANG SHANG, MICHAEL J. ROY
Journal:

Journal of Social Policy / Volume 51 / Issue 4 / October 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

23 March 2021, pp. 834-855

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October 2022
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In recent years ‘social enterprises’ have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems. We found that they are engaged broadly in three dimensions of health service provision: improving access to health services; improving the quality of health services; and building public health capacity. We contribute to social policy theory by enhancing understanding of the micro-level interventions of social enterprises in the healthcare sector and articulating new dimensions of NPG that include co-innovation, co-lobbying, and co-integration in the context of healthcare.