The Collaborative Public Manager

1. Public Managers in CollaborationRosemary O'Leary, Beth Gazley, Michael McGuire, and Lisa Blomgren BinghamPart I Why Public Managers Collaborate 2. Resource Sharing: How Resource Attributes Influence Sharing System ChoicesMary Tschirhart, Alejandro Amezcua, and Alison Anker3. To Participate or Not Participate? Incentives and Obstacles for CollaborationRachel Fleishman4. Partner Selection and the Effectiveness of Interorganizational CollaborationsElizabeth A. Graddy and Bin Chen5. The New Professionalism and Collaborative Activity in Local Emergency ManagementMichael McGuire6. Calming the Storms: Collaborative Public Management, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Disaster ResponseAlisa Hicklin, Laurence J. O'Toole Jr., Kenneth J. Meier, and Scott E. RobinsonPart II How Public Managers Collaborate 7. Understanding the Collaborative Public Manager: Exploring Contracting Patterns and Performance for Service Delivery by State Administrative Agencies in 1998 and 2004Jeffrey L. Brudney, Chung-Lae Cho, and Deil S. Wright8. Collaboration and Relational ContractingDavid M. Van Slyke9. Mechanisms for Collaboration in Emergency Management: ICS, NIMS, and the Problem with Command and ControlWilliam L. Waugh Jr.10. Collaborative Public Management and Organizational Design: One-Stop Shopping Structures in Employment and Training ProgramsJay Eungha Ryu and Hal G. RaineyPart III How and Why Public Managers Get Others to Collaborate 11. Collaborative Approaches to Public Organization Start-UpsRobert Alexander and Rosemary O'Leary12. Synthesizing Practice and Performance in the Field of Environmental Conflict ResolutionKirk Emerson13. A Public Administration Education for the Third-Party Governance Era: Reclaiming Leadership of the FieldPaul L. Posner14. Surprising Findings, Paradoxes, and Thoughts on the Future of Collaborative Public Management ResearchRosemary O'Leary and Lisa Blomgren BinghamReferences Contributors Index