Collaborative public management : new strategies for local governments / Robert Agranoff and Michael McGuire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agranoff, Robert.

Contributor:

McGuire, Michael, 1964-

Series:

American governance and public policy

American governance and public policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--United States.

Local government.

United States.

Intergovernmental cooperation--United States.

Intergovernmental cooperation.

Public-private sector cooperation--United States.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2003]

Summary:

Local governments do not stand alone -- they find themselves in new relationships not only with state and federal government, but often with a widening spectrum of other public and private organizations as well. The result of this reforming of local governments calls for new collaborations and managerial responses that occur in addition to governmental and bureaucratic processes-as-usual, bringing locally generated strategies, or what the authors call "jurisdiction-based management," into play.

Based on an extensive study of 237 cities within five states, Collaborative Public Management provides an in-depth look at how city officials work with other governments and organizations to develop their cities' economies and what makes these collaborations work. Exploring the more complex nature of collaboration across jurisdictions, governments, and sectors, Agranoff and McGuire illustrate how public managers address complex problems through strategic partnerships, networks, contractual relationships, alliances, committees, coalitions, consortia, and councils as they function together to meet public demands through other government agencies, nonprofit associations, for-profit entities, and many other types of nongovernmental organizations.

Beyond the "how" and "why," Collaborative Public Management identifies the importance of different managerial approaches by breaking them down into parts and sequences, and describing the many kinds of collaborative activities and processes that allow local governments to function in new ways to address the most nettlesome public challenges.

Contents:

Collaboration at the core

Managing in an age of collaboration

Models of collaborative management

Collaborative activity and strategy

Linkages in collaborative management

Policy design and collaborative management

Jurisdiction-based management

The future of public management and the challenge of collaboration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.

ISBN:

0878408967

OCLC:

50561603