Leveraging Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research to Inform Public Policy

Bushouse, Brenda K.

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“…A significant development in this search for answers is the renewed scholarly and practitioner interest in third sector organisations (TSOs). This sector has, in significant respects, changed the way state actors engage citizens in co-creation and co-construction activities, particularly in the industrialised world (Bourgeon 2014;Bushouse 2017;Daekin 2001;Paniagua & D"Angelo 2016;Salamon 2012;2000). The argument is that governments have exhausted their capacity to play the sole provider in society.…”

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The Third Sector in Public Governance in Nigeria: Concept, Identity and Prospects

Ali¹,

Ghazali²

2020

JPAG

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The world is suffused with self-organised groups asserting themselves in the policymaking corridors of governments and private-for-profits in order to jointly address stubborn societal challenges characterised as wicked problems. These self-organised bodies, labelled the third sector, operate in the advanced, developing, as well as less developed countries. This paper reviews the contemporary background of the third sector, its conceptual basis, its identity crisis and prospects for future development in the context of public governance in Nigeria. It does so premised on an orientation towards new governance tradition and heuristics. It argues that a better understanding of the concept, and governance role of the sector, by government policymakers, private-for-profits, and third sector actors themselves, will strengthen home grown cross-boundary collaboration for a more effective service delivery across the country.

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The Third Sector in Public Governance in Nigeria: Concept, Identity and Prospects

Ali¹,

Ghazali²

2020

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“…The second review, by Bushouse (), provides a historical overview of the nonprofit and voluntary action field (NVA). Compared to public management and policy process fields, it is a relatively young area of study, thus providing its history assists in understanding its boundaries as well as the shape of its research landscape.…”

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“…Compared to public management and policy process fields, it is a relatively young area of study, thus providing its history assists in understanding its boundaries as well as the shape of its research landscape. Bushouse () selects three areas of research that have been foundational for the field: why nonprofits exist, voluntary giving, and relations between nonprofits and governments. Building off of these three research areas, Bushouse points out how particular strands of research may be incorporated into policy process theories.…”

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Moving Beyond the Boundaries? Exploring Nexus Among Public Policy, Public Management, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Studies Fields

Smith¹,

Whitford²,

Schlager³

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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This special issue began with a call for manuscripts that explore the nexus between public management and public policy. The selected manuscripts were workshopped at a gathering of authors and editors. The workshop was followed by an APSA Roundtable, which permitted a wider ranging exploration of nexus between the fields.The original call operated off of a basic assumption: the partition between public policy and public management is essential for understanding shared research agendas, but the partition is artificial. Many of the puzzles found in public policy and public management overlap, and lessons can be learned from each field to advance the other.That assumption proved incomplete in two critical ways. First, the coeditors of the PSJ at the time (Weible and Schlager), as policy scholars, naively assumed that nonprofit studies fit neatly within the broader field of public management. Second, that a consensus existed among scholars on the (rough) boundaries of each of the fields as well as the major research questions motivating the fields.The neglect of nonprofit scholarship became immediately apparent at the workshop. Ill-defined disciplinary boundaries and the implications emerged during and after the workshop as manuscript authors found it challenging to locate a nexus and communicate it in a convincing manner to both public policy and management scholars. The APSA roundtable, which included a nonprofit scholar, fully exposed the conceit that scholars agree on the rough boundaries of each field as well as major research questions populating the fields.The experiences from the workshop and the roundtable shape the content of this special issue. The issue begins with three overview manuscripts that attempt to do four things: sketch out rough boundaries of one of the three fields, identify major research questions pursued by scholars in that field, identify nexus among the fields, and identify barriers and challenges to work at the intersections. In other words, the authors take on the difficult tasks of both defining the fields and identifying nexus. 4 0190-292X V C 2017 Policy Studies Organization

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“…Perhaps most notable, the effort offers a more comprehensive understanding of multifaceted governance phenomena that extend beyond the artificial boundaries of partitioned fields. Thus, incorporating public management's emphasis on the actions of public managers and their relationships with the structures and environments in which they operate (Sowa & Lu, ) and nonprofit and voluntary action's emphasis of topics such as voluntary contributions to policy activity and nonprofit relationships with government entities (Bushouse, ) can provide fuller, and arguably more realistic, understandings of public policies, the processes in which they are embedded, and their impacts on society. As this article is primarily concerned with a policy process perspective, the benefits to policy process scholarship are the focus of the discussion that follows.…”

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“…As this article is primarily concerned with a policy process perspective, the benefits to policy process scholarship are the focus of the discussion that follows. We direct readers to accompanying articles in this special issue for similar discussions from the perspective of the public management (Sowa & Lu, ) and nonprofit and voluntary action (Bushouse, ) fields.…”

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Advancing Policy Process Research at Its Overlap with Public Management Scholarship and Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Studies

Weible¹,

Carter²

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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A scholarly nexus is defined as identifiable spheres of theoretical and empirical overlap between academic fields or disciplines. This article explores the nexus between policy process research, public management scholarship, and nonprofit and voluntary action studies, oriented from the perspective of policy process scholars. The article begins with a description of policy process research, including some of its major thematic emphases regarding governance problems and processes. It next discusses limitations of policy process research imposed by its scope of inquiry, theoretical black boxes, and omitted factors. Three strategies-filling, zooming, and linking-for addressing these limitations are introduced. The article ends with rationales for leveraging research at the nexus to advance both specialized and general knowledge about public policy processes and governance issues.

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Leveraging Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research to Inform Public Policy

Cited by 22 publications

References 76 publications

The Third Sector in Public Governance in Nigeria: Concept, Identity and Prospects

The Third Sector in Public Governance in Nigeria: Concept, Identity and Prospects

Moving Beyond the Boundaries? Exploring Nexus Among Public Policy, Public Management, and Nonprofit and Voluntary Studies Fields

Advancing Policy Process Research at Its Overlap with Public Management Scholarship and Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Studies

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