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View article: Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times: The Role of Multi‐Level Governance, Hybrid Governance, and Negotiated Societal Intelligence
Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times: The Role of Multi‐Level Governance, Hybrid Governance, and Negotiated Societal Intelligence Open
New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge o…
View article: Theorizing the political dimension of collaborative governance
Theorizing the political dimension of collaborative governance Open
Collaborative governance research is attentive to the role that conflict, power, and politics play in collaboration processes, but, in our understanding, the approach to these issues can best be summarized as a “stakeholder deliberation pe…
View article: Metagoverning the Co-Creation of Green Transitions: A Socio-Political Contingency Framework
Metagoverning the Co-Creation of Green Transitions: A Socio-Political Contingency Framework Open
While the planet Earth will survive the accelerating climate and nature crisis, humankind may not. As part of its work to halt the global climate and nature crisis, while generating a distributed prosperity, the United Nations has unanimou…
View article: Advancing Co-creation in Local Governance
Advancing Co-creation in Local Governance Open
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This innovative book presents a theoretical framework for understanding co-creation and the ways t…
View article: Drivers of collaborative governance for the green transition
Drivers of collaborative governance for the green transition Open
Theoretical and empirical studies praise the role of collaborative governance in spurring green transition, but we still know little about how competing constellations of governance factors can support local collaboration between public an…
View article: Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle?
Metagovernance of co‐creation in city–university partnerships: How to avoid being stuck in the middle? Open
This article contributes to public administration research on collaborative governance in partnerships by exploring local efforts to metagovern a multi‐layered interorganizational collaboration between a city and a university. Hence, to fu…
View article: Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
Robust Governance in Turbulent Times Open
This Element aims to build, promote, and consolidate a new social science research agenda by defining and exploring the concepts of turbulence and robustness, and subsequently demonstrating the need for robust governance in turbulent times…
View article: A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value
A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value Open
The expansion of the scope and significance of co-creation in public policy and governance prompts the integration of different theoretical strands that together can help us illuminating the antecedent conditions, the processes of multi-ac…
View article: Ideational robustness in turbulent times
Ideational robustness in turbulent times Open
The concept of robustness has received increasing scholarly attention regarding public policy and governance, where it has enhanced our understanding of how policies and governance are adapted and innovated in response to disruptive events…
View article: The ideational robustness of bureaucracy
The ideational robustness of bureaucracy Open
To better understand why bureaucracy is still going strong despite a century of scorn, this article asks: How has the bureaucratic governance paradigm managed to achieve its ideational robustness in the face of consecutive waves of critici…
View article: How collective political intelligence produced better policy
How collective political intelligence produced better policy Open
In 2015, the City Council in Gentofte, Denmark, decided to change the way it develops policies in order to make them more effective, innovative, and legitimate. To that end, the politicians decided to introduce the so-called Political Task…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
This chapter explains how a broad range of well-established principles, perceptions and forms of governing in the public sector are being challenged by new ideas, concepts and practices that, when taken together, are transforming the modus…
View article: Index
Index Open
In this innovative book, Jacob Torfing, a leading scholar of the field, critically evaluates emerging ideas, practices and institutions that are transforming how public governance is perceived, theorised and conducted in practice. With a n…
View article: Enhancing city vitality by building platforms for interactive political leadership: Experiences and results from a longitudinal design experiment
Enhancing city vitality by building platforms for interactive political leadership: Experiences and results from a longitudinal design experiment Open
Efforts made by cities to enhance their vitality are often hampered by local councilors failing to set the political agenda, define pressing problems, and design and implement solutions that spur social cohesion, cultural creativity, and s…
View article: The Three Orders of Public Innovation: Implications for Research and Practice
The Three Orders of Public Innovation: Implications for Research and Practice Open
While the focus on public innovation is rapidly increasing, the public sector has not yet been transformed into a ‘serial innovator’ that pursues innovation permanently and systematically. To solve this problem, this article aims to broade…
View article: COVID-19 as crisis-induced innovation lab
COVID-19 as crisis-induced innovation lab Open
Against a tragic background, this study shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has catalyzed positive innovations in both welfare solutions as well as in public governance solutions of the Danish public sector. Drawing on qualitative as well as …
View article: <scp>COVID</scp>‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management
<span>COVID</span>‐19‐induced governance transformation: How external shocks may spur cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management Open
Persistent efforts to meet the demand for cross‐organizational collaboration and trust‐based management have been halted by a mixture of bureaucratic inertia and entrenched New Public Management thinking. This article explores whether the …
View article: Building Cocreation Platforms
Building Cocreation Platforms Open
This chapter explains how cocreation can be supported by establishing platforms, which provide knowledge, resources, and opportunities for local actors to come together in cocreation arenas. Platforms make it easy for local actors to conne…
View article: Leading Local Cocreation of SDG Solutions
Leading Local Cocreation of SDG Solutions Open
This chapter argues that despite the horizontal and self-organizing character of cocreation processes, leadership is essential for initiating and facilitating collaboration and securing the production of effective SDG solutions. Leadership…
View article: Challenges to the Cocreation of the SDGs and the Way Forward
Challenges to the Cocreation of the SDGs and the Way Forward Open
This concluding chapter summarizes the critical insights that changemakers ought to consider in their attempt to lead and manage cocreation processes and enhance their impact. The chapter also addresses three crucial challenges to the adve…
View article: Cocreating the UN's Sustainable Development Goals
Cocreating the UN's Sustainable Development Goals Open
This introductory chapter points to the need for sound and critical reflection on how to mobilize public, private and third sector actors, facilitate collaboration in partnerships and networks, and cocreate SDG solutions that are at once i…
View article: Cocreation Is the Answer
Cocreation Is the Answer Open
This chapter looks at how Goal 17 on partnerships can be a lever of change. It discusses the partnership approach to achieving the SDGs and unravels the key functions of networks and partnerships, such as knowledge sharing, coordination, a…
View article: Convening, Empowering, and Integrating Relevant and Affected Actors
Convening, Empowering, and Integrating Relevant and Affected Actors Open
This chapter explores how conveners can use stakeholder analysis to bring together and align relevant and affected actors in cocreation partnerships. Next, it considers how conveners can deal with the limits to the inclusion of all relevan…
View article: Evaluating Processes, Outputs, and Outcomes to Learn and Improve
Evaluating Processes, Outputs, and Outcomes to Learn and Improve Open
This chapter insists that evaluation of the process and results of cocreation is a precondition for continuous improvement and helps maintain support from external sponsors and funders. The main benefits of systematic evaluation of cocreat…
View article: Cocreating SDGs Through Experimentation and Prototyping
Cocreating SDGs Through Experimentation and Prototyping Open
This chapter goes into more detail about how experimentation can be used as a strategy of innovation and how cocreation can support this strategy. It first draws out lessons from research on sustainability transitions, design thinking, and…
View article: Funding and Financing Local Cocreation Projects
Funding and Financing Local Cocreation Projects Open
This chapter insists that local cocreation projects need not only good intentions and the hard work of volunteers but also require funding and financing of the design and implementation of new solutions. It draws a conceptual distinction b…