Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation

8-2024

Document Type

Doctoral Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph. D.

Department

Urban and Public Affairs

Degree Program

Urban and Public Affairs, PhD

Committee Chair

Kelly, Janet

Committee Member

Rollins, Aaron

Committee Member

Exmeyer, Patrick

Committee Member

Lambert, Thomas

Author's Keywords

Coproduction; public service; urban policing; multiple streams framework; interdisciplinary; policy implementation

Abstract

Coproduction, or the interaction of citizens with their public service provider, has been used in policy responses to a myriad of service delivery problems, especially policing. This dissertation uses a three-manuscript approach to revisit coproduction both as a theory and a practice. The first manuscript tracks the evolution of coproduction as a theory from three different disciplines: economics, urban theory, and public administration. In addressing the three disciplines, the manuscript explains what broadly united the coproduction literature and the differences that hindered the early development of the concept. It concludes with how the concept is used today, and how future research might treat the concept. The second manuscript uses an urban policing case study to explain how coproduction was offered as a policy solution to an urban policing problem. It explains why the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) hired a consulting firm, Hillard Heintze to address the trust deficit that followed the Breonna Taylor shooting. The consultant, Hillard Heintze, recommended coproduction as a means to restore trust in LMPD. The manuscript reviews how Hillard Heintze recommended the practice of coproduction as a response to the trust deficit, and how they operationalized the concept. The third manuscript explains why LMPD chose not to implement Hillard Heintze’s recommendation to coproduce in light of the Department of Justice consent decree that vi followed the shooting. Following the Multiple Streams Framework, it describes how the policy window for coproduction closed when LMPD entered into a consent decree agreement. The third manuscript concludes that coproduction continues to be a concept without a formal definition and offers recommendations on how future research might address the theoretical and practical limits of the concept.

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