The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government

O’Leary, Rosemary

doi:10.4135/9781506335681

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“…Similar to additional government-adversarial practices, such as guerrilla government (O'Leary 2006) or adversarial civic engagement (Young 2000), there is no easy answer to the question of whether EE should be nurtured, tolerated, or terminated (see O'Leary 2010). On the one hand, EE may contribute to the development and implementation of new ideas and to the creation of new opportunities that become available to the public at large.…”

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Citizens’ Entrepreneurial Role in Public Service Provision

Gofen

2013

Public Management Review

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In public service provision, citizens are conventionally reactive, portrayed as 'users', 'customers', 'co-producers', or 'participators.' Occasionally, following dissatisfaction, citizens themselves proactively create alternative services, namely, entrepreneurial exit (EE). Laymen then become providers of previously governmental professional services. Drawing upon six EE manifestations, findings suggest that if the newly-introduced service gains social acceptance, existing provision may change in one of the three modes: (a) First-order incremental change, legitimization of EE as an alternative service provision; (b) Second-order participative change, increased public participation in service provision fostered by EE; and (c) Thirdorder reformative change, existing service provision is reformed to satisfy citizens' demands.

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Citizens’ Entrepreneurial Role in Public Service Provision

Gofen

2013

Public Management Review

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“…Yet, these exact qualities were the reason that the dike warden also acted in ways clearly considered to be corrupt according to the norms of his time. Van Arckel's behavior was "guerrilla government" got out of hand (O'Leary, 2006). He seems to have been a bit of a "narcissist," in Michael Harmon's (1990) sense of the word.…”

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Classical Corruption: Hugo van Arckel , Dike Warden of the Krimpenerwaard, and the Corruption of His Time

Wagenaar¹

2016

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What are our public values? That question can perhaps best be answered by considering it in a deeper historical perspective. It is only through in-depth, case-by-case studies that we can hope to comprehend the meaning of public values and their change over time.In this regard, episodes of conflict are extremely important in discerning which public values are really salient, and how such values change as a result of such conflicts. We argue that public values, as they relate to corruption or other matters, are often only visible in moments of crisis or in moments of scandal.That is why we have focused on corruption cases that signal changes in the development of public values. These cases are almost always, by definition, "scandals," states of affairs which generated public emotion and vigorous debate. "Scandals," in contrast to "normal" corruption cases, are often indications of a changing mindset among key actors

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“…Street‐level bureaucrats often deviate from the high‐level demands of policy, for a variety of motivations ranging from self‐interest to altruism (O'Leary ). Such deviation from formal guidelines and policies has predominantly been treated as a problem to be rectified through better co ordination (or control) and alignment of goals between different levels of government (Keiser ) (see Gofen for an excellent overview of ‘street‐level divergence’).…”

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Neoliberal governing through social enterprise: Exploring the neglected roles of deviance and ignorance in public value creation

Teasdale

Dey

2019

Public Administration

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This article makes a case for paying greater attention to how informal relationships between government officials and civil society practitioners impact processes of public value creation. Drawing on data from a five‐year qualitative longitudinal study, we illuminate how civil society practitioners deviate from the formal objectives of social enterprise policies in order to create what they see as having public value. Through a process of theory elaboration, we demonstrate how government officials’ wilful ignorance of, or informal collaboration in, such deviance, precipitates forms of public value that are consistent with wider political objectives. Our analysis adds nuance and granularity to the debate on public value by drawing attention to the arcane ways it may be informally negotiated and created outside of the public sphere. This opens up new empirical and theoretical opportunities for understanding how deviance and ignorance might be symbiotically related in processes of public value creation.”

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The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government

Cited by 88 publications

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Citizens’ Entrepreneurial Role in Public Service Provision

Citizens’ Entrepreneurial Role in Public Service Provision

Classical Corruption: Hugo van Arckel , Dike Warden of the Krimpenerwaard, and the Corruption of His Time

Neoliberal governing through social enterprise: Exploring the neglected roles of deviance and ignorance in public value creation

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