Rethinking public service management and renewing democracy: engaging citizens as co-producers of public services -- Beyond exit and voice in enduring welfare services: citizens as co-producers? -- Empowering parents as co-producers of childcare services in Sweden -- Citizens as co-producers of...

1. Co-production as a maturing concept / Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff and Bram Verschuere -- 2. Co-production and third sector social services in Europe : some crucial conceptual issues / Victor Pestoff -- 3. From engagement to co-production : how users and communities contribute to public...

This book explores Europe's third sector – the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often overlooked features in contemporary...

<title>Abstract</title> In recent years, public management research has paid increasing attention to the third sector, especially to its role in the provision of public services. Evidence of this is the rising number of publications on the topic, as well as a growing number of sessions and papers on the topic...

<title>Abstract</title> A growing number of scholars question the sustainability of liberal representative democracy and a welfare state dominated by the big organizations in both the public and private sectors. The state is over extended and democracy is stretched to its limits. Walzer proposes to democratize...

<title>Abstract</title> Research on the roles of the third sector in the delivery of public services has so far been scattered. However, there is much to learn from drawing the different manifestations of third-sector involvement together, as each represents an element of the third sector within the public...

type="main" xml:lang="fr" <title type="main">Enrichir l'environnement de travail dans le secteur des services sociaux. Le cas des entreprises sociales dans les services à l'enfance en Suède</title> <p>Le modèle de demande et de contrôle de Karasak et Theorell relatif à l'analyse de l'environnement de travail postule un...</p>