The Three Sector Solution

Delivering public policy in collaboration with not-for-profits and business

John Butcher, David Gilchrist

• Publisher: ANU Press
• Year: 2016
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781760460396
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Essays in Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This collection of essays had its origins in a one-day workshop held in August 2015 at The Australian National University. Jointly convened by Dr John Butcher (ANZSOG) and Professor David Gilchrist (Curtin Not-for-profit Initiative) the purpose of the workshop was to bring together academic researchers, policy practitioners and thought leaders t

Table of contents

• Figures
• Tables
• Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Contextualising the Imperative of Cross‑Sector Working
• Introduction
• Three Sectors, One Public Purpose
• Part 1. Cross-Sector Working: The rhetoric and the reality
• Overview
• From New Public Management to New Public Governance: The implications for a ‘new public service’
• Partnerships between Government and the Third Sector at a Subnational Level: The experience of an Australian subnational government
• The Contribution of Not-for-Profits to Democratic Process
• Part 2. Three Sectors: Three change agendas
• Overview
• Policy Impediments to Social Investments by Australian Businesses
• Navigating Reform in Contested Spaces: Reflections on not-for-profit sector regulatory reform in Australia, 2010–2013
• Shining a Light on the Black Box of Collaboration: Mapping the prerequisites for cross‑sector working
• Part 3. Great Expectations: Outcomes and social impact
• Overview
• Does Outcomes-Based Reporting Contribute to or Contradict the Realisation of Social Outcomes?
• Not-for-Profit Accountability: Addressing potential barriers
• Results, Targets and Measures to Drive Collaboration: Lessons from the New Zealand Better Public Services reforms
• Part 4. New Tools for Policymakers and Practitioners
• Overview
• Redesigning Procurement Strategies for Complex Policy Spaces
• Alliance Contracting: How to progress in a world of uncertainty
• Expanding the Role of Cooperative and Mutual Enterprises in Delivering Public Services: Disrupting the status quo
• The Boundaries of Budgets: Why should individuals make spending choices about their health and social care?
• Cross-Sector Working: Meeting the challenge of change
• The Challenge of Change
• Conclusion
• Figure 8.1: Continuum of interorganisational relationships: The five Cs
• Figure 9.1 The changing role of government
• Figure 9.2 Changing expectations of government
• Figure 9.3 Red tape issues for NGOs
• Figure 9.4: The impact analysis cycle
• Figure 11.1: Stylised representation of performance management in the New Zealand Government
• Table 3.1: Elements of new public governance, in contrast with public administration and new public management
• Table 4.1: Year-on-year response rates
• Table 7.1: Chronology of the ACNC reform process
• Table 8.2: Summary of the key presenting processes used
• Table A8.1: Summary of collaboration exemplars
• Table 9.1: Job Services Australia star rating and star percentages
• Table 11.1: Results, targets and measures
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