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100 _aRyan, Bill
245 _aCo-production: Option or obligation?
260 _c2012
300 _ap.314-324.
362 _aSep
520 _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.
650 _aPublic administration
773 _aAustralian Journal of Public Administration
908 _aN
909 _a97651
999 _c97650
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