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Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service
- Source :
- Policy Design and Practice, article-version (VoR) Version of Record, Scott, D, Schillemans, T, 't Hart, P, Ansell, C, Andersen, L B, Flinders, M, Head, B, Moynihan, D, Nabatchi, T, O'Flynn, J, Peters, B G, Raadschelders, J, Sancino, A, Sørensen, E & Torfing, J 2021, ' Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service ', Policy Design and Practice, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 441-451 . https://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2021.1972517, Policy Design and Practice, 4(4), 441
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Routledge, 2021.
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Abstract
- In this programmatic essay, we argue that public governance scholarship would benefit from developing a self-conscious and cohesive strand of “positive” scholarship, akin to social science subfields like positive psychology, positive organizational studies, and positive evaluation. We call for a program of research devoted to uncovering the factors and mechanisms that enable high performing public policies and public service delivery mechanisms; procedurally and distributively fair processes of tackling societal conflicts; and robust and resilient ways of coping with threats and risks. The core question driving positive public administration scholarship should be: Why is it that particular public policies, programs, organizations, networks, or partnerships manage do much better than others to produce widely valued societal outcomes, and how might knowledge of this be used to advance institutional learning from positives?
- Subjects :
- Coping (psychology)
Introduction
positivescholarship
Public Administration
business.industry
Organizational studies
Corporate governance
Public policy
effectiveness
positive scholarship
Public relations
Core (game theory)
Scholarship
Public governance
Political science
Political Science and International Relations
Public service
Positive psychology
business
Symposium on Learning
policy success
high performance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 25741292
- Volume :
- 4
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Policy Design and Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cbcd54c030bc68c86d305f1ace2e8445