TY - JOUR
T1 - The politics of insufficiency
T2 - ambivalence and boundary work in the co-production of welfare services
AU - Frederiksen, Morten
AU - Grubb, Ane
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In the public and scientific discourse on welfare innovation and new public governance, community coproduction is thought to combine the best elements of the public and voluntary sectors, hence creating better and more efficient responses to social need. However, coproduction also blurs sectoral boundaries, potentially mixing incompatible practices, values and goals. In this paper, we investigate how volunteers and public sector employees experience and handle the coproduction ambivalence that results from cross-sector incompatibility. The paper is based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork on welfare coproduction among managers, employees and volunteers in a large Danish municipality.
AB - In the public and scientific discourse on welfare innovation and new public governance, community coproduction is thought to combine the best elements of the public and voluntary sectors, hence creating better and more efficient responses to social need. However, coproduction also blurs sectoral boundaries, potentially mixing incompatible practices, values and goals. In this paper, we investigate how volunteers and public sector employees experience and handle the coproduction ambivalence that results from cross-sector incompatibility. The paper is based on interviews and ethnographic fieldwork on welfare coproduction among managers, employees and volunteers in a large Danish municipality.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114682984&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1978759
DO - 10.1080/14719037.2021.1978759
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85114682984
SN - 1471-9037
VL - 25
SP - 501
EP - 521
JO - Public Management Review (Print)
JF - Public Management Review (Print)
IS - 3
ER -
