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1. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector

   Changing European Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Jacques Defourny, Lars Hulgård, Victor Pestoff

   The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship is attracting rapidly increasing attention from academic spheres, policy makers as well as field workers who are setting up new initiatives or reshaping their organizations. These concepts are perceived as defining innovative and dynamic...

   To Be Published January 29th 2014 by Routledge
2. Co-production

   The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

   Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen

   Public management research has in recent years 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 in academic...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

   Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend....

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. Co-production

   The Third Sector and the Delivery of Public Services

   Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen

   Public management research has in recent years 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 in academic...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
5. A Democratic Architecture for the Welfare State

   By Victor A. Pestoff

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations

   The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that the state cannot resolve these challenges...

   Published October 26th 2008 by Routledge