Wagenaar, H. and Wood, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-2972 (2018) The precarious politics of public innovation. Politics and Governance, 6 (1). pp. 150-160. ISSN 2183-2463
Abstract
This article argues that debates about public innovation among governance scholars risk essentialising the concept. Rather than recognise the inherently normative content of public innovation, some scholars have created taxonomies that conflate very different forms of ‘innovation’ in the public and private sectors, the latter of which is deeply contradictory to public values. We re-think public innovation as both a pragmatic process, a way of responding to developments in contemporary governance, and an inherently public and democratic practice. Our analysis addresses three points: who innovates; what is the object of innovation, and what are the effects of innovation? From this analysis we specify public innovation as both inescapable and democratically necessary to safeguard and promote the important values of public life.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). |
Keywords: | collaborative governance; democracy; essentialism; new public management; public innovation; unintended consequences |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2018 14:21 |
Last Modified: | 15 May 2018 07:00 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1275 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cogitatio Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.17645/pag.v6i1.1275 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130740 |
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