John Brewer explores the essential nature of the social sciences and the ways in which notions of 'impact' and 'value' could be reframed to generate a more productive debate around their contribution to the good of society.
I suggest that by adopting the approach of public value social science, sociologists of religion can intellectually renew their sub-discipline so that it becomes more than the sociology of secularisation, and thereby shift it towards ...
Supporting our position, Brewer (2013) advances a compelling case for the public value of the social sciences as researched and taught in universities. A public- value social science would be engaged, he argues, with the future of ...
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Moore’s classic Creating Public Value offered advice to managers about how to create public value, but left unresolved the question how one could recognize when public value had been created.
" This book seeks to go beyond the assumed understandings of who the public manager is and what she does.
The Public Value of Science: Or how to Ensure that Science Really Matters
This book explicates some of the richest cases used at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and illuminates their broader lessons for government managers.
How can public managers grapple with these emerging realities? This book seeks to provide answers to such public value questions by applying powerful budgeting perspectives.
In this original book Bill Jordan presents a new analysis of well-being in terms of its social value, and outlines ways in which this could be incorporated into public policy decisions.
In this perspective, the role of political astuteness, as discussed by Hartley et al. ... process of 'place-shaping', as an 'overarching strategic framework which defines the community services required and how they should be delivered' ...