Time Banking and Health: The Role of a Community Currency Organization in Enhancing Well-Being

Lasker, Judith N.; Collom, Ed; Bealer, Tara; Niclaus, Erin; Keefe, Jessica Young; Kratzer, Zane; Baldasari, Lauren; Kramer, Ethan; Mandeville, Rachel; Schulman, Julia; Suchow, Danielle; Letcher, Abby S; Rogers, Anne; Perlow, Kathy

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“…1992, Seyfang and Smith 2002, Seyfang 2003a, 2003b, Collom 2005, Collom et al 2012, Coughlin and Meiners 1990, Gregory 2009a, 2009b, Letcher and Perlow 2009, Lasker et al 2011. This is very much consistent with the social capital literature that has long since emphasized the connection between social networks and an increased sense of well-being and self-esteem (e.g.…”

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Varieties of co-production in public services: time banks in a UK health policy context

Glynos

Speed

2012

Critical Policy Studies

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Time banking is a third-sector initiative that enacts principles of co-production and offers a model with which to understand how users can become actively involved with professionals and other stakeholders in the delivery of public services. This article explores possible lines of tension between principles that underpin time banking practices and principles informing the health policy field in the United Kingdom. We develop a framework rooted in the logics approach to critical policy analysis with which to track shifts in conceptions of co-production at three nodes situated along the full length of the public service chain: (1) service provision and distribution; (2) service delivery; and (3) service governance. Our analysis reveals discrepancies in the way co-production principles can be defined, interpreted, and linked to broader notions of social justice: recognition-based interpretations with a transformative accent, and choice-based interpretations with an additive accent. We conclude that the health care regime, if understood as a 'regime of choice', will invariably prove to be a rather inhospitable environment for time banks, whose co-production principles are much more in tune with what we call a 'regime of recognition'. IntroductionThird-sector initiatives have been discussed and debated in relation to virtually every policy sector, including law and order, employment and welfare, health care, education, regeneration and social inclusion, as well as civic renewal and community empowerment. In this article we explore the political significance of time banks, understood as a third-sector initiative that 'enacts' principles of co-production. We ask what sorts of challenges and opportunities time banking might generate when thought in relation to the health policy sector. Our strategy is to train our attention on the concept of 'co-production' because not only has this term become a buzzword in policy circles, it is also invested with much promise by time bank advocates, who use it to normatively ground time banking practices.At a fairly simple and abstract level co-production is often meant to capture the idea that both provider and user can and do play an active role in the delivery of a service. In a health context, the concept has been used to explore, among other things, the ways in which doctors and patients can co-produce health care. Policy analysts and academics have noted the potential of co-production to offer a genuine alternative to approaches that are either top-down and target driven or choice-based and market driven. In this article

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Section: Time Banking and Healthsupporting

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Varieties of co-production in public services: time banks in a UK health policy context

Glynos

Speed

2012

Critical Policy Studies

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“…Our study has important implications in that it shows that financial incentives can be considered an effective measure to stimulate people to coproduce, but only to a limited degree. We offer two important nuances regarding the claims of those authors who argue that extrinsic rewards are an effective stimulus for coproduction (e.g., Collom ; Glynos and Speed ; Lasker et al ; Seyfang and Smith ). First, our study shows that compensation at the level “paid” by voluntary organizations is not enough to motivate people's willingness.…”

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“…but not for cash. In doing so, this voucher is similar to time‐bank vouchers as described in our theoretical framework (e.g., Lasker et al ).…”

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“…Scholars have argued that extrinsic motivators—an activity done in order to attain some separable outcome (Ryan and Deci , 60)—may be effective stimuli to motivate citizens to participate in coproduction processes, referring to either lowering participation costs (Weinberger and Jütting ) or increasing the financial benefits for participants (Pestoff, Osborne, and Brandsen ). A current trend sees the implementation of “time banks” and “complementary currencies” as external incentives for people to coproduce (e.g., Collom ; Glynos and Speed ; Lasker et al ; Seyfang and Smith ). Time‐banking practices reward people who offer their services to others in the form of time credits.…”

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Financial Rewards Do Not Stimulate Coproduction: Evidence from Two Experiments

Voorberg

Jilke

Tummers

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Public Administration Review

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Evidence for Practice• This research shows that modest compensation (2 euros per hour, similar to a time-bank voucher) does not have a significant effect on people ' s willingness to coproduce public services. Therefore, governments should be cautious in offering financial incentives to stimulate people to coproduce. • Even substantial financial incentives (10 euros per hour, comparable to the net income of a professional teacher) have only very small effects (6 percentage points) on people ' s willingness to coproduce. Therefore, governments are well advised to explore alternative possibilities for stimulating citizens ' willingness to coproduce.• This research indicates that people ' s motivation to coproduce is not crowded out by financial incentives.However, given the relatively small effect of financial incentives on people ' s willingness to coproduce, governments are advised to strengthen intrinsic public service and prosocial motivations (e.g., solidarity, charity, etc.) of potential coproducers instead of promoting coproduction by introducing financial incentives.

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“…In addition to the missing cases involving the service categories and age attribute, it should be noted that transaction records are not perfect (see Seyfang 2001;Lasker et al 2011;Collom et al 2012). Some members do not report all of their transactions.…”

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2014

Connections

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Connections publishes original empirical articles that apply social network analysis. We are particularly interested in research reports, articles demonstrating methodological innovations and novel research design. We also facilitate the dissemination of datasets and review scholarly books. Our scope spans many disciplines and domains including Communication, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Social Psychology, Political Science, Public Health, Policy Studies, Medicine, Physics, Economics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. As the official journal for the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), the emphasis of the publication is to reflect the ever-growing and continually expanding community of scholars using network analytic techniques. I am pleased to report on a new team in charge of copyediting, layout, online presence and journal management. A number of changes on the style and presentation of the journal are planned over the next twelve months. From this issue onwards we introduce dedicated DOI numbers to each article (backdated to 2012). This will allow citing papers as soon as final proofs are accepted. By integrating this process to our review we anticipate to substantially reduce the gap from submission to an accessible online version of an article. We have expanded the DEN section and introduced a book review section with a view to evaluate the expanding literature of textbooks and monographs in the field. We also intend to retain a print run of the journal as we are committed to supply print issues for our institutional and library subscribers. From next year we are considering reducing the mailing costs by making the journal available at Sunbelt for all attending or to charge postage to those requiring a copy by post.In this issue you can find articles on networks of the unemployed (Harris, et al.), bipartite flow centrality (Gerdes), hospital operating room ties (Tighe et al.) and mobile phone data collection (Comulada). We also publish four Data Exchange Network (DEN) articles on football club rivalries in Argentina (Bundio), terrorist networks in Mali (Walther and Christopoulos), collaboration networks in the 2013 Sunbelt (Pfeffer, Hollstein and Skvoretz) and the transactions in a local currency group in Portland (Collom). You will also find here a report on the 2014 Sunbelt keynote of Jeff Johnson (van Holt), two book reviews and a report from the last INSNA Business Meeting.I take this opportunity to solicit good quality research papers that will be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience of network analysts. Papers are double blind reviewed and we aim to complete a first review within three months. I am particularly keen on papers with methodological or research design insights. With short papers with methods or results that have inter-disciplinary appeal being particularly welcome. I am also pleased to welcome a new associate editor with responsibility for DEN, Juergen Pfeffer. I would like to renew our invi...

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Time Banking and Health: The Role of a Community Currency Organization in Enhancing Well-Being

Cited by 71 publications

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Varieties of co-production in public services: time banks in a UK health policy context

Varieties of co-production in public services: time banks in a UK health policy context

Financial Rewards Do Not Stimulate Coproduction: Evidence from Two Experiments

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