Making Sense of Collaboration and Governance

Networks, collaboration, and shared governance are key components of the twenty-first-century research program for public management scholars. This critique examines five key challenges for the field: modeling politics in collaboration, identifying central competencies that government must retain, the "e-limits" to collaboration, creating a multisectoral curriculum, and working with network data.

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