Abstract In 1991, Christopher Hood made a substantial contribution to public administration
research when he formulated the concept of new public management (NPM). His article can …

Co-creation has become a globally popular concept in different sectors of the society. Its
promise lies in breaking down hierarchies between local government, business life …

The paper's goal is to advance at understanding of the public management framework after
decades of administrative reform under the New Public Management (NPM) hegemony …

Social policy developed as a research field and academic discipline to ensure protection
from social risks in the era of emerging capitalism and industrialization. While welfare states …

In public administration today, many new reform ideas mingle, offering new diagnoses of
governmental problems and courses of action. But scholars have highlighted reasons why …

The article evaluates marketization and its effects on elderly-care policies in Finland, where
the welfare state has been the most important mechanism in mitigating failures caused by …

This paper presents an empirical study of asylum seekers in Glasgow and their capacity to
co-produce the public services they use. It is divided into three parts. The first briefly …

This paper examines initiatives in participatory budgeting (PB) in a city in the United
Kingdom, a country which is a slow adopter of PB. While there are UK initiatives on PB …

This article contributes to the discussion concerning the ways in which network governance
and classical-modernist government practices juxtapose and redefine the idea of publicity in …

In public service provision, citizens are conventionally reactive, portrayed as
'users','customers','co-producers', or 'participators.'Occasionally, following dissatisfaction …