This presentation was given by Martjin van der Steen, Vice Dean and Deputy Director, Netherlands School for Public Administration and & Erasmus University, Rotterdam at the GCES Conference on Governing Education in a Complex World in Brussels on 17 October during the keynote session on Complexity and Modern Governance.
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Keynote: Complexity and Modern Governance
1. Governing complex systems
prof.dr. Martijn van der Steen
@martijnvdsteen
• Public value bottom-up
• New modes of government: collaborative,
networks
• Sedimentation, hybridization and mixed models
• Implications for public organizations, civil servants,
citizens, and for (public) leaders
• Discussion
Outline of this session
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• Network Governance core concepts:
– Working with others to achieve your own goals
– Joined up government
– Chains and networks
– Coordination, integration, collaboration
– No departmentalism, tunnel vision, vertical silos
– Seamless services across organizational boundaries
– Organizing government around problems
– Relational state
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• Societal Resilience core concepts:
– Local self-organization & self-reliance
– Public value bottom-up
– Societalization of public value
– Government as co-producer, partner, or sidelined
– Community shares, co-operative society
Based on: Van Eijk, 2011
OPA
Bureaucratic
model
NPM
Competitive
model
NG (Post-NPM)
Interdependence
model
SR
Selforganizati
on model
Focus on State Market Network Civil society
Relation Politicians-
servants
Principals-
agents
Stakeholders-
stewards
Prosumers
Concept Public goods Public choice Public value Self reliance
Legitimacy
basis
Input: rules &
resources
Output:
products
Throughput:
process
Outcomes:
effects
Coordination Ex-ante Ex-post Ex-durante Self-
organization
Role of
stakeholders
Voters and
subjects
Customers
and
contractors
Co-producers and
partners
Prosumers,
peer to peer
Public
Administration
(PA)
New Public
Management
(PM)
Network
Governance
(NG)
Societal
Resilience
(SR)
Paradigm shifts?
(O)PA
NPM
NG
SR
Sedimentation and layering
Public
Administration
(PA)
New Public
Management
(NPM)
Network
Governance
(NG)
Societal
Resilience
(SR)
Policy
Results
Civic Results
Inside-out Outside-in
Netherlands:
“Energie Akkoord:
Germany:
“EnergieWende”