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Foundation Papers

Foundation papers have been commissioned in the following areas: public interest-public value, democracy, public opinion-what people want, elective politics, government, nonprofits, markets, corporate social responsibility, constitutional law, organized labor, media and communications, religious institutions in public life, k-12 education, and higher education. They will aim to address the following broad research questions:

1. In what ways do individuals and groups engage and lead in cross-boundary action, create integrative processes and structures, or foster a culture that enhances or inhibits the creation of public value across sectors?

2. In what ways do or can multiple sectors (business, government, nonprofits, higher education, civil society, labor, media) contribute to the creation of public value? In what ways are they limited in their ability to create public value?

3. What philosophical foundations, sector-specific theories, goals, or assumptions may explain the construct of public value within and among multiple sectors?

4. In what ways is the concept of public value relevant and applicable across multiple sectors? What are the aligned public value principles at the intersection of multiple sectors? Why does it matter?

5. What approaches are available (or needed) to discern, measure, and assess public value creation?

Name	Title/Affiliation	Paper Topic	Title
Professor Emeritus Norm Bowie	Professor Emeritus Strategic Management and Organization Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota	Corporate Social Responsibility	Corporate Social Responsibility in Business
Professor Barry Bozeman	Ander Crenshaw Professor of Public Policy Regents' Professor Public Policy Public and International Affairs University of Georgia	Public Interest, Public Value	Public Values Concepts and Criteria: The Case for “Progressive Opportunity” as a Criterion
Professor Robert H. Bruininks	Professor and President Emeritus Elmer L. Andersen President Emeritus Chair Emma M. Birkmaier Professor in Educational and Civic Leadership Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota	Higher Education	Public Purposes: The Road to Renewal for American Higher Education
Professor John Budd	Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair Program Director, Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies Carlson School of Management University of Minnesota	Organized Labor	Implicit Public Values and the Creation of Public Value: The Importance of the Work and the Contested Role of Labor Unions
The Reverend Peg Chemberlin	President, National Council of Churches Executive Director, Minnesota Council of Churches	Religious Institutions in Public Life	Public Values, Public Life: What’s God got to do with it?
Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing	Committee on National Statistics The National Academies - Keck Center	Science and its contribution to Public Value.	Public Value of Science and Technology
Dean Thomas Fisher	Dean and Professor College of Design University of Minnesota	Design Thinking	Creating Public Value through Design
Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs	Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies Director, Center for the Study of Politics and Governance Hubert H. Humphrey School and Department of Political Science University of Minnesota	Public Opinion - what people want	The Problem of the Public: Making Public Value in Contested Times
Professor Laura Kalambokidis	Associate Professor and Extension Economist Department of Applied Economics University of Minnesota	Fiscal Policy	Creating Public Value with Tax and Spending Policies
Professor Anne Khademian	Director, School of Public and International Affairs Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	Governments	Governments and the Creation of Public Value: A framework for examining “good government” in the US
Professor Jane Kirtley	Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law Director, Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Minnesota	Media and Communications	Media and Communications: Is the Public Value Test Consistent with the First Amendment?
Professor Mark Moore	Hauser Professor of Nonprofit Organizations and Faculty Chair, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government Harvard University	Accounting	Public Value Accounting: Establishing a Philosophical Basis
Professor Sam Myers	Roy Wilkins Professor of Human Relations and Social Justice Chair of Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota	Markets	Markets, Market Failure, and Remedies to Intraracial vs Interracial Inequality
Professor Sallyanne Payton	William W. Cook Professor of Law University of Michigan	Law	Creating Public Value: Law as an Element of Design of Public Programs
Associate Professor Kathryn Pearson	Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Minnesota	Elective Politics	Creating Public Value in Electoral Politics
Professor Karen Seashore	Regents Professor Robert Holmes Beck Chair of Ideas in Education College of Education and Human Development University of Minnesota	K-12 Education	Contested Ground: Perspectives on Creating Public Value in Elementary and Secondary Education
Associate Dean Steven Rathgeb Smith	Louis A. Bantle Professor in Business and Government, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University	Nonprofits	Nonprofit Organizations and Creating Public Value
Profesor Joe Soss	Professor Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service Humphrey School of Public Affairs University of Minnesota	Democracy	Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy