Collaborative Public Management

"Local and regional administrators will find in Collaborative Public Management a guide to the future of public management."—Publius

"Managing collaboration across organizational and governmental boundaries presents both tough challenges and also golden opportunities to expand the capacity for effective public action. This book offers plenty of evidence from the front lines and sketches valuable implications for practice as well as research."—Laurence J. O'Toole Jr., professor, School of Public and International Affairs, The University of Georgia

"If collaborative public management is the new direction of public administration, then Agranoff and McGuire's path breaking book points the way. A first-rate study that combines a thoughtfully developed set of models with creative analysis of the way local officials behave. Not only do the authors clearly explain their analytic framework, but they carefully demonstrate how they conducted their research. This important new book will be valuable for scholars and students of city management, intergovernmental relations, and public administration. "—Dale Krane, School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska, Omaha

"While collaboration has become a commonplace term in the public management and policy fields, rarely has the term been examined with the skill and facility that Agranoff and McGuire bring to this book. They have captured the richness and complexity of collaborative management and have used the lens of a specific local government policy area to develop models that include an examination of the players, activities, and policy instruments involved in these activities. This volume clearly stirs the intellectual pot!"—Beryl A. Radin, professor of government and public administration, University of Baltimore