Inside Public-Sector Innovation

How Local Governments Put Ideas into Action

Zachary Spicer, Joseph Lyons, Tyler Romualdi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2026
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-2725-6 (ISBN)

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A practitioner-oriented volume featuring multiple innovations from rural, urban, and suburban Canadian governments of various sizes, Inside Public-Sector Innovation includes rich descriptions of local public-sector strategies associated with successful innovation at scale.

Faced with increasing demands from residents, and amidst growing legal and resource constraints, municipalities are experimenting to find new ways of making things work. Inside Public-Sector Innovation profiles the expertise and experience of local administrators in Canada who have successfully moved innovation from conception to reality.

A practitioner-oriented guide, this volume features multiple innovations from rural, urban, and suburban governments of various sizes. Exploring organizational, process, and service innovations, public administrators directly involved in their implementation highlight lessons for other practitioners considering similar strategies. Chapters cover challenges across policy domains including diversity and inclusion, public health, environmental sustainability, and service delivery inefficiencies. All together, these case studies enhance our understanding of what local public-sector innovation entails and how enterprising public servants can put it to immediate use.

Recognizing local governments in Canada as drivers of experimentation, Inside Public-Sector Innovation advances research through its rich descriptions and analysis of municipal strategies, drawing attention to the unique complications and opportunities associated with innovation at scale.

Zachary Spicer is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration and the head of New College at York University. Joseph Lyons is assistant professor of political science and director of the Local Government Program at the University of Western Ontario. Tyler Romualdi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
Zusatzinfo	5 diagrams, 6 tables
Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-2280-2725-X / 022802725X
ISBN-13	978-0-2280-2725-6 / 9780228027256
Zustand	Neuware