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Feeling good about giving: Does helping equal happiness?

Published Date: 16 December 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
Helping others takes many forms, from giving money to charity to helping a stranger. It springs from countless motivations, from deep-rooted empathy to a more calculated desire for public recognition....
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The intensity of innovation in public sector organisations

Published Date: 01 December 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
The public sector is under pressure to provide new public services with increasingly scarce resources. In response, there have been calls for greater innovation. An empirical analysis strongly...
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Being a public manager in times of crisis: the art of managing stakeholders, political masters and collaborative networks

Published Date: 17 November 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
The COVID‐19 pandemic is seen as the biggest global crisis since World War II. What started out as a public health issue has quickly morphed into a political, economic and societal crisis of...
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Responding to complexity in public services

Published Date: 03 November 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
A paper in Public Money & Management discusses the merits of the emerging ‘Human Learning Systems’ (HLS) approach to the funding, commissioning and management of public services. The Hu...
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Why policy narrative matters: effective government responses to COVID-19

Published Date: 20 October 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge, COVID-19
Storytelling in public policy matters when communicating policy decisions. How can policy makers craft compelling narratives to influence policy success? At a glance A paper in Policy Design ...
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Becoming a boundary spanning public servant

Published Date: 06 October 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
Cross-boundary collaborations are a key feature of today’s public sector. Public servants are increasingly expected to work in ways that cut across vertical silos and organisational boundari...
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In search of a golden thread: Developments in public management across Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australia

Published Date: 22 September 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australia have long been considered role models for innovations in public policy and management. Is there a golden thread that ties recent public management developmen...
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Policy labs – The next frontier?

Published Date: 08 September 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
Policy labs have emerged globally with a mission to support public policy development through innovative solutions. However, it is unclear to what extent policy labs provide new ways of address...
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Royal commissions and policy influence

Published Date: 26 August 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
While the outcomes of a royal commission can significantly shape the direction of public policy, they can also miss opportunities to influence. How do royal commissions exert policy influe...
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The dark side of public innovation

Published Date: 11 August 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
The positive outcomes of innovation are well known but the dark side of public innovation has received less attention. What is the dark side and how does this affect public value? At a glance ...
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Backing what works? Social impact bonds and evidence-informed policy and practice

Published Date: 28 July 2020
Key Topic and Teaching Concept: The Bridge
Globally, governments are exploring new ways of procuring public services to improve effectiveness and efficiency. A high-profile example of this trend over the past decade is the development o...
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What can be learnt from the “Agile Journey” at the World Bank

Published Date: 28 July 2020
By G.Edward DeSeve, leader of the Agile Government Centre The following article was originally published on the website of the USA’s Agile Government Center. The US-based Agile Government C...