John Alford

The Many Publics of Government Organizations

John Clayton Thomas, John Alford

Book Chapter  |  2021

Public Management and Co-Production

John Alford, Louise Freijser

Book Chapter  |  2018

Like non-identical twins separated at birth, co-production and public management have been connected with but distanced from each ..

Strategy in the Public and Private Sectors: Similarities, Differences and Changes

John Alford, Carsten Greve

Journal article  |  2017  |  ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES

Into the Purple Zone: Deconstructing the Politics/Administration Distinction

John Alford, Jean Hartley, Sophie Yates, Owen Hughes

Journal article  |  2017  |  AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

We add new data to the long-standing debate about the interface between politics and administration, deploying theory and evidence..

Ventures in public value management: introduction to the symposium INTRODUCTION

John Alford, Scott Douglas, Karin Geuijen, Paul 't Hart

Journal article  |  2017  |  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW

This essay reviews the development of public value management, tracing its rise from relative obscurity in the 1990s to the global..

Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory

Jean Hartley, John Alford, Eva Knies, Scott Douglas

Journal article  |  2017  |  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW

There is considerable scholarly writing about the theory and application of public value concepts, but this article explores why t..

Balancing budget control and flexibility: the central finance agency as "responsive regulator'

Michael Di Francesco, John Alford

Journal article  |  2017  |  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW

This paper explores how the increasing need for budget flexibility might be reconciled with the necessity for control of public mo..

Citizen co-production of public services: Meanings, processes, antecedents and consequences

J ALFORD

Book Chapter  |  2017

When we visit a doctor, we usually assume – if we give it any thought at all – that we are receiving a service. For a fee, the doc..

Wicked and less wicked problems: a typology and a contingency framework

John Alford, Brian W Head

Journal article  |  2017  |  POLICY AND SOCIETY

This paper addresses shortcomings in the scholarship about ‘wicked problems’, and suggests ways of tackling them. Firstly, account..

Co-Production of Public Services in Australia: The Roles of Government Organisations and Co-Producers

John Alford, Sophie Yates

Journal article  |  2016  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

This article adds to the emerging empirical literature on citizen co-production. Based on a telephone survey of 1000 Australian ad..