01212pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001500040245004100055260000900096300001500105362000800120520087600128650002601004773004801030180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aRyan, Bill  aCo-production: Option or obligation?  c2012  ap.314-324.  aSep  aCo-production is an idea being discussed in the international public management literature but less so in New Zealand and Australia. Co-production rejects the idea of service delivery to passive users, proposing instead they be treated as active participants in the production of outcomes. As partners in delivery, users bring resources, skills and capabilities to their interactions with providers. Co-production requires providers to share power and negotiate the interaction. There are strong managerial reasons for adopting co-production to improve effectiveness and efficiency. But the political reasons for adopting co-production are even stronger because of trends of many decades towards greater citizen participparticipation. These reasons oblige public managers in Australasia to adopt co-production in many fields of policy as part of the future. - Reproduced.  aPublic administration  aAustralian Journal of Public Administration