[AISWorld] Cal for Chapters - ENABLING COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE THROUGH SYSTEMS MODELING METHODS

[Luis Felipe Luna Reyes]

ENABLING COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE
THROUGH SYSTEMS MODELING METHODS
Fostering coordination in public policy design and implementation

Call for Chapters
A volume edited by:
Carmine Bianchi, (University of Palermo, Italy), Luis F. Luna-Reyes (University at Albany USA), and Eliot Rich (University at Albany USA).
Scheduled for publication in the Springer Series on "System Dynamics for Performance Management" (http://www.springer.com/series/13452).

Topic of the Proposed Volume
Public policy implementation remains a vital topic for research and practice, particularly in the current debate surrounding the pursuit of sustainable social development and community quality of life. Lack of coordination between the political and the administrative levels in a single agency has traditionally been remarked as a major cause of inconsistency in the provision of public services.
Inconsistent policy design and unsustainable policy implementation are associated often with the use of an overly narrow, static and non-systemic view that is insufficiently robust with respect to the dynamic complexity of the current spate of 'wicked' social problems, e.g.: unemployment, youth disengagement, social cohesion, domestic violence, child abuse, crime, corruption, terrorism, poverty, migration flows of refugees, homelessness, climate change, and natural disasters. Such policy areas involve a multitude of dynamic complex problems that today's societies are expected to deal with as they pursue resilience and improved quality of life. Failing to consider the dynamic complexity of such problems increases the risk of policy resistance and of counterintuitive, unpredictable behavior of the systems that a public agency may try to affect through its own individual actions. In addition to the intrinsic complexity of the problems, coordinating policy and actions to solve them usually involve a multitude of policy makers and other stakeholders from the public, but also from the non-profit and the private sectors.
As part of the Springer Series on "System Dynamics for Performance Management," we look to gather a set of approaches to public management problem-solving that apply systemic principles, conceptual and simulation models. Such a collection of tools, techniques and frameworks is needed to establish the value of these approaches, and to accelerate their dissemination through the field.

Possible Topics for the Volume
This call for chapters seeks both theoretical and empirical research on how public sector organizations have been adopting (or might adopt) system modeling methods framing the dynamic complexity hidden in 'wicked' social policy issues, to foster collaborative governance and the design of consistent and 'robust' policies to deal with such problems at both inter-institutional (i.e. community) and agency level.
Possible topics and debates include but are not limited to:

  *   Modeling the development of networks

     *   How to foster the development of networks of public sector organizations that may lead to sustainable community outcomes?
     *   How to model such sustainability?
     *   What are its key components and drivers?
     *   How to model community outcomes?



  *   Modeling network performance
     *   How to measure network performance?
     *   What are its main outcomes and drivers?
     *   How to model the drivers of information sharing among stakeholders and its effects on network performance?





  *   Modeling Intangibles
     *   How to model relational and social capital?
     *   What are their drivers?
     *   How to model the processes trough which trust is built or eroded in a community area?
     *   How to embody public values into performance evaluation, so to consider not only efficiency and effectiveness in policy implementation, but also equity, social justice and quality of life?
     *   What is the role of education in developing such a shift of mind in performance evaluation?
     *   What kind of skills, attitudes and values should be fostered?
     *   How to foster outcome-based accountability (at both a political and a managerial level) if a single agency can directly affect only a fraction of community outcomes?
     *   What kind of changes should be fostered to enable this shift in performance management? More specifically, what are the implications of such shift for cultural, institutional/legislative, and organizational systems? How to pursue such changes?
     *   How to foster an interdisciplinary approach in designing and implementing sustainable governmental reforms aimed at generating community outcomes and public value?


  *   Linking agency with community outcomes
     *   How to set agency outcomes which are consistent with community outcomes?
     *   What are the drivers and the behavioral implications associated with this process?
     *   How to model, benchmark and assess the effects on social and financial outcomes of alternative organizational designs of networks and of other hybrid formulas for providing community support and generating public value?
Chapter format and Key-dates

  *   Submitted manuscripts will be written according to the following characteristics:
     *   Character: Times-New-Roman, 12
     *   Abstract length: Max 120 words
     *   Key-words: Max 5 items
     *   Maximum paper length: 7000 words
     *   Footnotes at the bottom of each page (please limit the use of footnotes)
     *   Citations: preferably in the body of the paper. Please use the following standard (Ammons, 2001, p. 7)
     *   References: at the end of the paper, according to the following standard: Ammons D. (2001). Municipal Benchmarks, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications

  *   Completed manuscripts are due by 30th November 2018, and must be submitted to bianchi.carmine at gmail.com.
  *   By 1st March 2019 authors will be given notice on the outcome of their submitted chapter, reviewed by double-blind referees.
  *   By 8th April 2019 full chapters will have to be resubmitted by the authors, based on the suggestions from the anonymous referees.
  *   By 31st May 2019 formal notification of chapter acceptance for publication will be sent to the authors and the volume will be sent to Springer for publication.


Please direct questions regarding manuscripts to: bianchi.carmine at gmail.com<mailto:bianchi.carmine at gmail.com> (or to carmine.bianchi at unipa.it)<mailto:carmine.bianchi at unipa.it)>, Luis Luna-Reyes (lluna-reyes at albany.edu<mailto:lluna-reyes at albany.edu>) or Eliot Rich e.rich at albany.edu).

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System Dynamics for Performance Management

Series Editor: Bianchi, Carmine
ISSN: 2367-0940



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Luis F. Luna-Reyes
Associate Professor
University at Albany
Departments of Public Administration and Information Science
Faculty Fellow, Center for Technology in Government
135 Western Avenue
Albany, NY 12222, Milne 206
Ph. (518) 442-5297
Email: lluna-reyes at albany.edu<mailto:lluna-reyes at albany.edu>

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