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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production
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New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
406 pages
14h 46m
English
Routledge
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8  Co–Production and NetworkStructures in Public Education

David O. Porter

EMERGENCE OF THE CONCEPT OF CO–PRODUCTION

The notion of co–production emerged at particular time and place–during the 1970s in the United States. Americans were struggling to cope with a vast increase in public sector activities that resulted from a myriad of events and initiatives during the 1960s. The continuing arms race of the cold war, the civil rights movement, urban violence, the Great Society and the Vietnam War converged to produce an unprecedented scope and scale of government activity at all levels–federal, state and local. Not surprisingly, in pluralist America there were competing notions about the institutional arrangements for governments as they grappled ...

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