The Collaborative State
How working together can transform public services
Competition and choice have become the watchwords of public service reform over the past decade. But while these principles have delivered some important gains, they are not enough in isolation. Tight accountability and choice have often come at the expense of fragmenting the way that schools, hospitals and councils provide their services. Service improvement has come at the expense of the capacity to solve local people’s problems.
If we want to sustain improvements into the next decade, then we need a new generation of reform that builds on experiments with collaboration between both different parts of the public sector, and between institutions and the people they serve. Joined-up government, place-based policy making and co-production with citizens offer exciting new possibilities for creating flexible, dynamic and democratic public service organisations.
This collection of essays by leading thinkers and practitioners assesses how far we have already come towards a more collaborative style of government and sets out international case studies of some of the most interesting initiatives to date. It concludes by asking how future governments can use collaboration as a key design principle for transforming the country’s public services.
Contents and contributors:
Beyond state and markets
Social cooperation as a new domain of policy
Yochai Benkler
How far have we travelled towards a collaborative state?
Sue Goss
Roots of cooperation and routes to collaboration
Barry Quirk
The conditions for collaboration
Early learning from Wales
Steve Martin and Adrian Webb
Working together for stronger Victorian communities
Yehudi Blacher and David Adams
Networked learning communities
Collaboration by design
David Jackson
Learning together
The collaborative college
Sarah Gillinson,Celia Hannon and Niamh Gallagher
Your experience matters
Designing healthcare with citizens
Lynne Maher
Katrina’s code
How online collaboration tools came to the rescue in New Orleans
Paul Miller and Niamh Gallagher
Policing the front line
Charlie Edwards
New leadership for the collaborative state
Valerie Hannon
Overcoming the hidden barriers
Henry Tam
Beyond delivery
A collaborative Whitehall
Simon Parker
Flesh, steel and Wikipedia
How government can make the most of online collaborative tools
Paul Miller and Molly Webb
The co-production paradox
Sophia Parker
Evolving the future
Tom Bentley
This collection of essays by leading thinkers and practitioners assesses how far we have already come towards a more collaborative style of government and sets out international case studies of some of the most interesting initiatives to date. It concludes by asking how future governments can use collaboration as a key design principle for transforming the country’s public services.
Contents and contributors:
Beyond state and markets
Social cooperation as a new domain of policy
Yochai Benkler
How far have we travelled towards a collaborative state?
Sue Goss
Roots of cooperation and routes to collaboration
Barry Quirk
The conditions for collaboration
Early learning from Wales
Steve Martin and Adrian Webb
Working together for stronger Victorian communities
Yehudi Blacher and David Adams
Networked learning communities
Collaboration by design
David Jackson
Learning together
The collaborative college
Sarah Gillinson,Celia Hannon and Niamh Gallagher
Your experience matters
Designing healthcare with citizens
Lynne Maher
Katrina’s code
How online collaboration tools came to the rescue in New Orleans
Paul Miller and Niamh Gallagher
Policing the front line
Charlie Edwards
New leadership for the collaborative state
Valerie Hannon
Overcoming the hidden barriers
Henry Tam
Beyond delivery
A collaborative Whitehall
Simon Parker
Flesh, steel and Wikipedia
How government can make the most of online collaborative tools
Paul Miller and Molly Webb
The co-production paradox
Sophia Parker
Evolving the future
Tom Bentley
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