From Austerity to Abundance?

Margaret Stout is an Associate Professor of PublicAdministration at West Virginia University, USA. Her research can be found innumerous journals and books, including Logicsof Legitimacy: Three Traditions of Public Administration Praxis; A Radically Democratic Response to GlobalGovernance: Dystopian Utopias; and IntegrativeGovernance: Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises.

• Foreword: Toward a Politics of Belonging; HendrikWagenaarIntroduction; MargaretStoutChapter 1. Are Social Movements PrefiguringIntegrative Governance? JeannineM. Love and Margaret StoutChapter 2. Unsettling the Memes ofNeoliberal Capitalism through Administrative Pragmatism; C. F. Abel and Karen KunzChapter 3. Cross-sector Collaborations forPublic Value Co-creation; AlessandroSancino, James Rees, and Irene SchindeleChapter 4. Tackling Maternal Health throughCell Phones: Evaluating a Collaborative Framework; NidhiVij MaliChapter 5. Clarifying Collaborative Dynamics inGovernance Networks; Margaret Stout, Koen P. R. Bartels, andJeannine M. LoveChapter6. A Typology of Coproduction: Emphasizing Shared Power; Victor Burigo Souza and Luís Moretto NetoChapter7. Get Talking: Managing to Achieve More through Creative Consultation; Nicola Gratton and Ros BeddowsChapter8. Joining the Citizens: Forging New Collaborations betweenGovernment and Citizens in Deprived Neighborhoods; ImratVerhoeven and Evelien TonkensChapter 9. Encounters with an Open Mind:A Relational Grounding for Neighborhood Governance; Koen P.R. Bartels

Scholars of public management describe some of the trends in the creative transformation of the public sector that are emerging from collaborative governance practices at all levels from the local to the international. Among the topics are unsettling the memes of neoliberal capitalism through administrative pragmatism, tackling maternal health through cell phones: evaluating a collaborative framework, clarifying collaborative dynamics in governance networks, joining the citizens: forging new collaborations between government and citizens in deprived neighborhoods, and encounters with an open mind: a relational grounding for neighborhood governance.