From Public Value to Institutional Force

From Public Value to Institutional Force develops a conceptual architecture for carrying normative public aims from public meaning towards institutional force. It distinguishes normative construction from institutional translation and proposes a disciplined sequence linking construction, contextual interpretation, translation, embedding, enactment and learning. Using flourishing as the applied case, the presentation analytically reconstructs an architecture first assembled through the author’s 2025 White Paper work: six constitutive value-capacities, a seven-step reflective process, a four-dimensional scaffold, layered pedagogical imagery, proposed flourishing systems and an emerging middle-out coordination design. It identifies the institutional intermediary often missing between public philosophy and governance practice and sets out provisional evaluative criteria, a double interpretive movement, translation operators and a resourced middle. The presentation positions the proposed architecture alongside selected adjacent work on flourishing, value, multilevel governance and institutional translation. It establishes a citable conceptual research record and defines a research programme. It is not an implementation study or empirical validation. Detailed rubrics, instruments and applications remain under development. Related records: Bittner-Gibbs, Alyssa. Everyone Can Flourish, White Paper, Version 1. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20649910 Bittner-Gibbs, Alyssa Kathleen. Alla kan blomstra: Pedagogical White Paper, Version 1.0, Original Author Version, 13 January 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20583848 Rights notice: Copyright © 2026 Alyssa Kathleen Bittner-Gibbs. All rights reserved. See the record’s licence statement.