Includes bibliographical references and index.

Co-production as a maturing concept / Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff, Bram Verschuere -- What is co-production? : conceptual and theoretical perspectives -- Co-production and third sector social services in Europe : some crucial -- Conceptual issues / Victor Pestoff -- From engagement to co-production : how users and communities -- Contribute to public services / Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler -- Co-production : contested meanings and challenges for user organizations / Benjamin Ewert and Adalbert Evers -- Third sector and the co-construction of Canadian public policy / Yves Vaillancourt -- From co-production to co-governance / John M. Ackerman -- How does co-production work? -- Co-production from a normative perspective / Edgar S. Cahn and Christine Gray -- Co-production and network structures in public education / David O. Porter -- The conditions for successful co-production in housing : a case study of German housing cooperatives / Taco Brandsen and Jan-Kees Helderman -- Co-production in an information age / Albert Meijer -- How does co-management work? -- Co-management to solve homelessness : wicked solutions for wicked -- Problems / Kerry Brown, Robyn Keast, Jennifer Waterhouse, Glen Murphy and Myrna Mandell -- Co-management in urban regeneration : new perspectives on -- Transferable collaborative practice -- Hans schlappa -- "don't bite the hand that feeds you? : on the partnerships between -- Private citizen initiatives and local government / Karolien Dezeure and Filip De Rynck -- Co-producing safety or participative window dressing regulation -- Partnerships in German local governance arrangements / Matthias Freise -- The potential of nonprofit-government partnerships for promoting citizen involvement / Ichiro Tsukamoto -- Effects of co-production : service quality, accountability and democracy -- Co-production and service quality : a new perspective for the Swedish welfare state / Johan Vamstad -- Co-production : an alternative to the partial privatization processes in Italy and Norway / Andrea Calabra -- The challenges of co-management for public accountability : lessons from Flemish childcare / Diederik Vancoppenolle and Bram Verschuere -- New public governance, co-production and third sector social services in Europe : crowding in and crowding out / Victor Pestoff -- Conclusion : taking research on co-production a step further / Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Victor Pestoff.

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