Prelims -- Refocusing performance management through public service design? -- An integrated framework toward public system governance: insights from viable systems approach -- Public support and corporate giving to the arts and culture in times of economic crisis: an exploratory analysis on the Italian case -- Working citizens' cross-sectoral preferences in England and Finland -- Government - third sector relations and the triple helix approach: patterns in the Italian social innovation ecosystem -- Paradigms of public management and the historical evolution of state - CSO partnerships: a comparison of AIDS, social assistance, and cultural policy -- Infrastructure projects as a value co-creation process -- The co-production of housing policies: social housing and community land trust -- Collaborative governance: a successful case of public and private interaction in the port city of Naples -- The relationships between government and civil society in performing public service hybrid organisations: some insights from a comparative study -- About the authors -- About the editors -- Index.