Creating public value in the policy advice role: a reflection from the front line

Bromell, David

doi:10.26686/pq.v8i4.4432

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“…This change appears to have been made as a matter of government priority to focus on the short-term actions of Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart and electricity supplier switching, since public submissions apparently did not suggest that the universality provision be dropped and neither did officials recommend it (Ministry of Economic Development, 2011). The path taken here is consistent with Bromell's (2012) depiction of recent governments' exasperation with 'utopian' outcome statements and strategies, turning the focus instead to specific actions via a 'command and comply' approach. To the current government's credit, the rate of insulation achievement in low-income homes in just three years of the Warm Up New Zealand programme exceeded the total for the prior 15 years.…”

Section: Causes and Responsessupporting

confidence: 70%

“…But, as argued above, 'official' evaluations and interpretations are not free from their own limitations and biases. In my view, much could be gained from bringing together and refining these different forms of information and insight -similar to Bromell's (2012) argument for creating better 'public value' around policy advice and interventions.…”

Section: Evaluation Interpretation and Political Driversmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Child poverty: the ‘fuel poverty’ dimension

McChesney¹

2013

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"Children … spoke about damp and cold houses affecting their health, and wanted rental properties to be safer and healthier. They noted that more insulation of homes would make heating homes more affordable, as they reported that families are struggling to pay household bills, which leads to no heating, no water, and the inability to cook." (Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty, 2012) Fuel poverty can be broadly described as the inability of a household to afford a sufficient level of energy services in the home. Energy services are the things people need and desire from their use of energy, such as warm and comfortable rooms, hot water, lighting, and cooked food. Having a sufficiency of energy services is widely accepted as indispensable to modern living and peoples’ quality of life, while a state of energy deprivation can have an adverse impact on physical and mental health, well-being and social functioning (Boardman, 1991; Pantazis, Gordon and Townsend, 2006).

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Section: Causes and Responsessupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Evaluation Interpretation and Political Driversmentioning

confidence: 93%

Child poverty: the ‘fuel poverty’ dimension

McChesney¹

2013

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“…The techniques needed by service managers: Benington and Moore (2011) argued that service managers' skills and techniques to work with relevant stakeholders to ensure good policy choices in the interest of the public and at the same time legitimate to improve socially desirable outcomes (Bromell, 2012).…”

Section: Origin Of Public Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Public Value Management: An Emerging Paradigm in Public Administration

Bojang

2021

IJBME

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In 1975, Nicholas Henry puts forward five paradigms for public administration. These paradigms demonstrate the historical development of public administration since Woodrow Wilson's famous article. The existence of competing paradigms in public administration enhances theoretical development within the discourse. Public value management has brought a new dimension to the discourse. The purpose of this study is to investigate the paradigmatic shift in public management and to determine if the ‘Public Value Management’ represents an emerging paradigm in public administration. The paper attempts to answer two main questions: (a) Does public value management represent a new paradigm in the field of public administration? (b) Is public value management the future of public administration? To answer these questions, the study followed a historical approach to provide an accurate description and analysis of the current state as well as predicting its future course. Data for this study has been collected through a primary scoping of the literature on public administration. This paper shows that public value is not only an emerging paradigm in public administration but also the future. The study also found out that public value is the next big thing for governments aiming to deliver better public service. The public value paradigm is centered around the needs of the public as citizens, as well as consumers, the creation of value rather than achieving individual outcomes. It is more than the aggregation of individual needs with deliberation as to what constitutes public value at its core. In answering the aforementioned questions, the paper endeavor to establish the focus of public value management paradigm within the public administration field. The study adds value to the literature and theoretical development of public value

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“…But there are moments when switching out of automatic mode enables more flexible and creative responses to the challenges and questions life and work throw at us. Standing back and thinking things through helps us discern alternatives and ways forward that create public value (Bromell, 2012), that are more flexible and fit for purpose, better and sometimes even wiser than those we might have opted for in 'point and shoot' mode.…”

Section: Definition Of Termsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why (not) political philosophy?

Bromell¹

2016

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Why political philosophy? Why do I read it, teach it and encourage others to engage in it? Simply, because I am driven to it by my practice as a public servant. I have spent a great deal of my working life in meetings where we discuss, decide or make judgements about public policy. I notice how often we express or imply ‘big ideas’ in our discussions with one another, but mostly in an unthinking (even unconscious) way. So we skate over confusions and contradictions in our own and others’ thought and too frequently talk past each other.

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Creating public value in the policy advice role: a reflection from the front line

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Child poverty: the ‘fuel poverty’ dimension

Child poverty: the ‘fuel poverty’ dimension

Public Value Management: An Emerging Paradigm in Public Administration

Why (not) political philosophy?

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