Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Problem-solving and Public Services -- Chapter 3. Public Value, Values, and Public Services -- Chapter 4. E-public Services -- Chapter 5. Local Public Sector Innovation -- Chapter 6. Organising in Self-organising Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Learners, Teachers...

This paper argues that the ‘New Public Management’ paradigm for public management theory and practice that has prevailed for the last thirty years is both flawed in theory and has failed in practice. We argue for an alternative to this paradigm that is rooted with the New Public Governance...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Public Services and Marxism -- Chapter 2. Public Value: How to Make It and Measure It? -- Chapter 3. Public Services, Dialectics, and Nature -- Chapter 4. Social Change, Public Services and Dialectics -- Chapter 5. Transitions and Public Services -- Chapter 6. The State...