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By Sandford F. Borins
The thoughts in American executive Awards application started in 1985 with a furnish from the Ford beginning to the Kennedy institution of presidency at Harvard to behavior a application of awards for options in kingdom and native govt. the root s aim was once formidable and, in an period of "government is the matter" rhetoric, determinedly proactive. It sought to counter declining public self belief in executive by way of highlighting leading edge and powerful courses. Over 20 years later, learn, popularity, and replication are the resource of this system s carrying on with effect and its energy. what's the way forward for govt innovation? How can innovation improve the standard of existence for electorate and advance democratic governance? concepts in govt: learn, reputation, and Replication solutions those questions through proposing a entire method of advancing the perform and examine of innovation in govt. The authors speak about new learn on innovation, discover the influence of a number of courses that realize innovation, and examine demanding situations to the replication of options. members comprise Eugene Bardach (University of California—Berkeley), Robert Behn (Harvard University), John D. Donahue (Harvard University), Marta Ferreira Santos Farah (Center for Public management and govt, Funda?§??o Getulio Vargas), Archon Fung (Harvard University), Jean Hartley (University of Warwick), Steven Kelman (Harvard University), Gowher Rizvi (Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University), Peter Spink (Center for Public management and govt, Funda?§??o Getulio Vargas), and Jonathan Walters (Governing).
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At the same time, site visits were being farmed out more and more to topic experts outside the Kennedy School, and fewer of the award-winning programs were being written up as case studies. But even as the school and the program were growing apart, the Ford Foundation still saw enough merit in the concept to make the decision to endow a center at the Kennedy School that would allow for the indefinite survival of the Innovations in American Government Awards Program. In 2001 the foundation offered a $50 million endowment, to be matched by $20 million in Kennedy School money.
And it highlighted some truly ground-breaking work by people who otherwise would have continued to toil in obscurity. Toby Herr, executive director of Project Match, a small welfare-to-work program based at the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago, infamous as a haven of chronic poverty and out-of-control criminal activity, a 1988 winner, says the recognition the program garnered was huge. “We were just a little demonstration program supported by the state, working with Northwestern University.
Second, the effort had been fairly insular—that is, there’d been no effort to reach out to other universities and academics as a way to begin creating a broader community of interest and perhaps help to kindle a very specific academic interest in the notion of innovation as a discrete area of study. Third, the concept of turning winning programs into good case studies had languished. Given the promising programs that had been uncovered so far, given the potential for a wider broadcast of best practices, and given the potential for a national, academic focus on the art and science of innovation itself, the awards program was relaunched in 1990.