Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Carstensen, Martin B.; Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob
• 署名单位: Roskilde University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12857
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 36-52
• 关键词: institutional bricolage; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATION; KNOWLEDGE; POLITICS; AGENCY; ideas

摘要

The public sector frequently confronts a heightened societal turbulence triggered by an increasing number of unpredictable and disruptive economic, political, and environmental crises. How can the public sector respond to this challenge? This article argues, first, that to continue to provide relevant solutions, public governance must be robust in the sense of adapting and innovating policies, programs, and services in ways that facilitate the achievement of basic public ambitions, functions, and values in the face of challenges, stressors, and threats. Second, to build robust governance, public managers must engage in bricolage and become bricoleurs in order to flexibly combine elements from competing and co-existent public governance paradigms. Doing so necessitates the construction of institutions conducive to bricolage, that is, institutions that are characterized by a high degree of flexibility that allows for experimentation; institutions that foster inclusive deliberation, knowledge sharing and joint learning; and institutions that balance centralization with distributed agency.