The Collaborative Public Manager: New Ideas for the Twenty-First Century (Public Management and Change series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589012232 ISBN 13: 9781589012233

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Collaborative public management is a concept that describes the process of government and the private sector working together in multi-organizational arrangements to solve problems that cannot be solved (or easily solved) by single government organizations. Collaborative public management may also include participatory governance: the active involvement of citizens in government decision-making. This book presents current state-of-the-art empirical research and conceptualizing about collaborative public management. The contributors are top scholars in public management and public policy. The book examines how recent case studies have produced evolutions in public management theory, particularly since the publication of Robert Agranoff and Michael McGuire's award-winning book Collaborative Public Management: New Stratagies for Local Governments (Georgetown University Press, 2003). The thirteen chapters in the book are primarily organized by major topics in collaborative public management (e.g. how governments choose collaborative partners) and describe various recent cases that have advanced our understanding of the topic. One chapter (Chapter 6) provides a new case study.

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About the Author

Rosemary O'Leary is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Maxwell School Advisory Board Endowed Chair at Syracuse University. She has received ten national research awards and eight teaching awards. She is codirector of the Collaborative Governance Initiative and codirector of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts. Lisa Blomgren Bingham is Keller-Runden Professor of Public Service at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington. She has received the Association for Conflict Resolution's Abner Award and the Rubin Theory-to-Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management and the Harvard Project on Negotiation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1589012232
• ISBN 13: 9781589012233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: O'Leary Rosemary, Bingham Lisa Blomgren