Voluntary and Public Sector Collaboration in Scandinavia : New Approaches to Co-Production /

In thirteen chapters, the contributors to this volume analyse the different dimensions of a new form of collaboration, termed collective co-production, in the Scandinavian countries. It is a characteristic of the Scandinavian countries - Sweden, Norway and Denmark - that they have both a large publi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Ibsen, Bjarne (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Third Sector Research,
Subjects:	Social policy. Welfare state. Social service. Social sciences. Economic sociology. Social Policy. Politics of the Welfare State. Social Work and Community Development. Comparative Social Policy. Social Sciences, general. Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction (Bjarne Ibsen)
2. Interactions between local government and voluntary organizations: theoretical perspectives (Bernard Enjolras and Håkon Trætteberg)
3. Public and civic social services: potentials for participatory democracy (Thomas P. Boje)
4. Voluntary-public sector collaboration in Norway from a municipal perspective: Variations according to fields of responsibility (Ivar Eimhjellen)
5. Voluntary-public sector co-production in Denmark: Why differences between welfare areas? (Bjarne Ibsen, Klaus Levinsen, Michael Fehsenfeld and Evald Bundgaard Iversen)
6. The attitude of the population towards the involvement of volunteers in elderly care. Results from a survey experiment in Norway (Dag Arne Christensen, Rune Ervik and Tord Skogedal Lindén)
7. Associationalism and Co-production: A comparison of two ideals for participatory democracy (Bjarne Ibsen)
8. Innovation without participation? The counterfactuals of community co-production (Morten Frederiksen, Lars Skov Henriksen and Ane Grubb)
9. Civil society organizations and municipalities in changing times: potentials and pitfalls in the collaborative turn (Helle Hygum Espersen, Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Anne Tortzen)
10. Co-producing neighbourhood safety and the role of police perceptions: a case study of the Danish police co-commissioning with ethnic minority associations (Marianne Staal Stougaard and Klaus Levinsen)
11. Place-based co-production: Working with voluntarism in Danish urban regeneration (Annika Agger and Jesper Ole Jensen)
12. Micro conditions for co-production: Values, levels, and satisfaction with co-production in a non-profit welfare organization (Ola Segnestam Larsson, Charlotte Forsberg and Thomas Schneider)
13. Collective co-production in Scandinavian countries: Conclusion and discussion across the book's chapters (Bjarne Ibsen).