Reconnecting State and Society Through Public Value and Civicness

Abstract

This chapter argues that a structural change is occurring in the relationships among the State and the society, opening up new opportunities for co-creating public value. In particular, four alternative patterns are proposed: resistance (no change); outsourcing; layering; strategic reconnection. The strategic reconnection alternative is the one grounded on public value co-creation as a new paradigm for public management and as a new ethos for public managers. The chapter highlights how several strategic management schools (Ferlie & Ongaro, 2015) may inform the design and the management of processes of public value co-creation. Finally, it highlights the role of civicness as a principle of democratic governance, as a philosophical premise for human agency towards public value co-creation and as the seed animating what it is defined in the chapter as the ‘public value society’.

Citation

Sancino, A. (2022), "Reconnecting State and Society Through Public Value and Civicness", Public Value Co-Creation, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-961-620221005