Rising to Ostrom’s challenge: an invitation to walk on the bright side of public governance and public service

Policy Design and Practice

Lotte Bøgh Andersen¹  Donald Moynihan²  Jos Raadschelders³  Eva Sørensen⁴  Jacob Torfing⁴  Tina Nabatchi⁵  Alessandro Sancino⁶  Chris Ansell⁷  Janine O’Flynn⁸  B. Guy Peters⁹  Brian Head^1,10  Matthew Flinders^1,11  Scott Douglas^1,12  Thomas Schillemans^1,12  Paul ‘t Hart^1,12 

[1] Aarhus University, Denmar;Georgetown University, US;Ohio State University, US;Roskilde University, Denmar;Syracuse University, US;The Open University Business Schoo;University of California, Berkeley, CA, US;University of Melbourne, Australi;University of Pittsburgh, US;University of Queensland, Australi;University of Sheffield, U;Utrecht University, Netherland;

关键词: Public governance;    positive scholarship;    policy success;    high performance;    effectiveness;   

DOI  :  10.1080/25741292.2021.1972517

来源: Taylor & Francis

【 摘 要 】

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?

【 授权许可】

CC BY