Creating Public Value in Practice ― Advancing the Common Good in a Multi-sector, Shared-power, No-one-wholly-in-charge World

Through 19 chapters based on presentations from the Fall 2012 Creating Public Value conference organized by the Center for Integrative Leadership at the U. of Minnesota, public affairs, public administration, and other scholars from the US, UK, and South Korea argue that a new approach to public administration and management is needed that aligns the values of efficiency and effectiveness with equity and democratic values, and that this approach should emphasize the language, concepts, and methodologies of public value and recognize the government's role in these values, the importance of public management and service to the public, and citizenship and democratic and collaborative governance. They use cases to describe the ways that public value can be created in local communities, by government agencies, in cross-sector collaborations, and by global forums through analysis, leadership, dialogue and deliberation, the formal and informal processes of democracy, institutional design, and performance management regimes and models, with discussion of citizen science, network governance arrangements, civic engagement, social impact bonds designed to attract private financial investment to social programs, resource allocation, contracting practices, nonprofit organizations, university-based extension programs, affordable housing, mega-events, and increasing the effectiveness of development aid. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)