How far have we come with co-production—and what’s next?

In March 2017, we announced that we were guesteediting a Public Money Management theme on coproduction, reflecting on the ever-increasing use of the concept in the public sector around the world, particularly in countries that have experienced prolonged austerity and major cutbacks in the public sector, to which co-production potentially seemed at least a partial solution (Bovaird, Flemig, Loeffler, Osborne, 2017).In March 2017, we announced that we were guesteediting a Public Money Management theme on coproduction, reflecting on the ever-increasing use of the concept in the public sector around the world, particularly in countries that have experienced prolonged austerity and major cutbacks in the public sector, to which co-production potentially seemed at least a partial solution (Bovaird, Flemig, Loeffler, Osborne, 2017).