Solving Public Problems

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A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

By Beth Simone Noveck

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Solving Public Problems by Beth Simone Noveck explores innovative approaches to tackling modern societal challenges such as inequality, climate change, and systemic racism. The book emphasises using digital technology, data, and collective community wisdom to design and implement effective solutions. It advocates for a new role and skill set for public servants, aiming to bridge the gap between traditional, failing institutions and proactive public entrepreneurs. Drawing on global experience and extensive interviews, Noveck offers a practical guide for public servants, leaders, students, and activists to lead with effectiveness, equity, and inclusiveness in today’s complex world.
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Solving Public Problems is ideal for public servants, policymakers, community leaders, students of politics and public administration, activists, and anyone interested in innovative solutions to social challenges and improving governmental effectiveness.

How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems

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The challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our communities to design and deliver powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

Offering a radical rethinking of the role of the public servant and the skills of the public workforce, this book is about the vast gap between failing public institutions and the huge number of public entrepreneurs doing extraordinary things—and how to close that gap.

Drawing on lessons learned from decades of advising global leaders and from original interviews and surveys of thousands of public problem solvers, Beth Simone Noveck provides a practical guide for public servants, community leaders, students, and activists to become more effective, equitable, and inclusive leaders and repair our troubled, twenty-first-century world.

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Praised by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy for its engaging explanation of data-driven and collaborative problem solving, the book is noted as essential reading by Anne-Marie Slaughter, who highlights its blend of policy research with innovation and experimentation. Achim Steiner, UNDP Administrator, considers it a vital manual for creating scalable, sustainable solutions to pressing global issues. Reviews unanimously commend the book’s hopeful perspective on fast, effective government action and its practical insights for overcoming bureaucratic inertia.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300230154

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 9 b-w illus.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 448

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About the Author

Beth Simone Noveck directs The Governance Lab (The GovLab) and its MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Opening Governance. She is a professor of technology, culture, and society at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. @bethnoveck and http://solvingpublicproblems.org/.