Evaluating public value

Policy professionals face increasingly complex challenges when evaluating policy. Moving away from traditional notions of public administration, largely founded on outputs rather than outcomes, new public management has... [ view full abstract ]

Policy professionals face increasingly complex challenges when evaluating policy. Moving away from traditional notions of public administration, largely founded on outputs rather than outcomes, new public management has transposed the private sector’s measurement of success into the public sector. Most recent ideas of public management linking to enabling public value through co-design pose challenges in accounting for success. This paper provides strategies for overcoming these challenges through theoretical and methodological considerations.