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THE BENEFITS AND RISKS OF EXPERIMENTAL CO‐PRODUCTION: THE CASE OF URBAN REDESIGN IN VIENNA
Author(s) -
BARTENBERGER MARTIN,
SZEŚCIŁO DAWID
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.313
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1467-9299
pISSN - 0033-3298
DOI - 10.1111/padm.12233
Subject(s) - production (economics) , pragmatism , politics , government (linguistics) , phase (matter) , economics , business , public economics , political science , microeconomics , law , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , organic chemistry
Building on the literature on co‐production and the (pragmatist) literature on experimentalist policy‐making we introduce and evaluate a novel form of co‐production: experimental co‐production. We propose a model of this specific form including a list of not only potential benefits but also possible risks and costs. We illustrate and examine this model of experimental co‐production by drawing on the case study of a major urban planning initiative in Vienna, Austria that included an experimental co‐testing phase. We find that while the expected benefits of experimental co‐production were partly realized for the citizens involved, the city government faced major political costs.