Inside co-production: ruling, resistance, and practice

Bevir, Mark; Needham, Catherine; Waring, Justin

Abstract

It might be argued that a narrative of co-production has come to re-define contemporary social and public policy. Elinor Ostrom’s pioneering work on co-production, that started in the 1970s and was awards the Nobel prize for economics in 2009, offers a way to bridge the gap between the market and the state through involving citizens in the production of common goods (Ostrom et al. 1978; Ostrom 2015). This ‘disarmingly simple’ idea (Alford 2014) is now engrained within contemporary policy-making and public service delivery (Ansell and Gash 2008), symbolising a more humane and inclusive alternative to New Pubic Management (Newman 2005) and cornerstone to New Public Governance (Osborne et al. 2016).

Citation

Bevir, M., Needham, C., & Waring, J. (2019). Inside co-production: ruling, resistance, and practice. Social Policy and Administration, 53(2), 197-202. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12483

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 4, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jan 1, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019-03
• Deposit Date: Jan 22, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 2, 2021
• Journal: Social Policy & Administration
• Print ISSN: 0144-5596
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-9515
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 197-202
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12483
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1486692
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/spol.12483
• Additional Information: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Bevir M, Needham C, Waring J. Inside co‐production: Ruling, resistance, and practice. Soc Policy Admin. 2019, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12483. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
• Contract Date: Jan 22, 2019