Co-producing and co-constructing public policies: the role of the SSE
Themes : Public policies and the solidarity economy
Yves Vaillancourt (2014) identifies the notions of the co-production and co-construction of public policies. They refer both to the participation of civil society and market actors in the implementation of public policies (for example, services management and supply) and to actors’ participation in defining and drawing up policies (determining general policy lines and key elements). These practices provide a major opportunity for democratising the economy, and public policies in particular, by introducing forms of governance based on the participation of civil society and market actors. In addition, in this context, civil society actors are no longer confined to the role of passive service consumers.
The contribution of the social and solidarity economy is particularly innovative and promising, since it offers social innovations rooted in experiments. To cite one example, social policies in Quebec are marked by the cooperation between social and solidarity economy actors, working alongside other labour market and civil society actors, and the State to develop (co-construct) and operationalize (co-produce) policies centred on the general interest. This applies to social and community housing policies over the last twenty years in Quebec, where SSE actors are involved both in designing policies and in the cooperative forms their implementation takes.
4 publications | 2 Videos | 5 case studies | 6 Analyses/working papers/articles
4 publications
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Social and Solidarity Economy. Beyond the Fringe.
Peter Utting, ZED books UK, April 2015
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Social and Solidarity Economy: Beyond the Fringe? Introductory chapter
Peter Utting, April 2015
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Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise Governance and Democracy
Edited by Jean-Louis Laville, Denis Young, Philippe Eynaud, Routledge, USA, March 2015
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A NEW APPROACH TO WELFARE: GENERATING EXPERIENCES
October 2011
2 Videos
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Audio : How Residents of an English Town Took Governance and the Local Economy Into Their Own Hands
Upstream conversations
April 2017
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UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”, Geneva, 6-8 May 2013
May 2013
5 case studies
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THE IMPETUS PLAN FOR THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY 2016 – 2019
Ajuntament de Barcelona
April 2017
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Brighton & Hove Food Poverty Action Plan - A whole city approach to tackling food poverty.
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership, 2015
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The AccèsLogis Québec Program: 15 years of Partnership Between the State and the Social Economy
Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue canadienne de politique sociale, no 1, p. 16-29.
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Canada Case Study. Co-Construction of Public Policy for the Social Economy
International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011
Paul Chamberlain, Mike Toye, Geneviève Huot, Émilien Gruet, October 2011
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International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011
Susan Steinman, October 2011
6 Analyses/working papers/articles
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Chapter 4. Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Public Policy
October 2016
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Public Policy for a Social Economy
Journal of peer Production, issue #7
John Restakis, July 2015
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4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy University of Antwerp, 24-26 October 2013
Anders Bro, Claes Gunnarsson, Olle Westin, October 2013
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Beyond Policy ‘Lock-In’? The Social Economy and Bottom-Up Sustainability
Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue canadienne de politique sociale, 2012, no 67
Mike Gismondi, Kailey Cannon, 2012
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The AccèsLogis Québec Program: 15 years of Partnership Between the State and the Social Economy
Canadian Review of Social Policy / Revue canadienne de politique sociale, 2012, no 1, 16-29.
Marie-Noëlle Ducharme,, 2012
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Public Policy for the Social Economy: Building a people-centred economy in Canada
PUBLIC POLICY Paper Series Cahiers SUR les POLITIQUEs PUBLIQUEs Number 03 - jun e 2010
Sarah Amyot, Rupert Downing, Crystal Tremblay, June 2010