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Book SynopsisDemonstrates how government at various levels can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. This title shows how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources.
Trade Review"No one has summed up quite as concisely the transcendent idea behind the deregulation movement of the last fifty years as have Donahue and Zeckhauser: that by carefully granting decision-making authority to private entities, profit and non-profit enterprises alike, government can achieve considerable gains in both efficiency and consent."--David Warsh, Economic Principals "For anybody who has any experience in public life, either as a politician or official, or in the private sector working on government contracts, Collaborative Governance by John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser is an interesting read."--Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist blog "Public-private collaboration, for better and for worse, is the way of American government. Sometimes this is done very well. Sometimes ... this is done very badly. Elected officials and public managers need to learn to do this more effectively, because that's the way their work will get done. John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser provide a great starting point to ponder these issues... Through a variety of case studies, they consider what government must do in monitoring and motivating private partners to make such arrangements a success... This book effectively demonstrates that government can increase public value by properly and carefully collaborating with the for-profit and non-profit sectors."--Harold Pollack, Reality-Based Community "Required reading for anyone interested or involved in public policy making to understand the potential value, and risks, of collaborative governance."--Sasha Jesperson, LSE Politics and Policy blog "Donahue and Zeckhauser have written an appealing book that, once again, conceives of collaboration as possible... The scholarship upon which the book is based can not be doubted... The public, non profit, and private sectors will need one another to meet on the basis of respect for the strengths of the other. This book's optimism is a delightful step in that direction."--Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Perspectives on Politics
Table of ContentsForeword by Stephen Breyer ix Part I: The Promise and Problems of Collaboration Chapter 1: Private Roles for Public Goals 3 Chapter 2: Rationales and Reservations 27 Chapter 3 : he Delegator's Dilemma 45 Part II: Rationales--More, Better, or Both Chapter 4: Collaboration for Productivity 63 Chapter 5: Collaboration for Information 104 Chapter 6: Collaboration for Legitimacy 122 Chapter 7: Collaboration for Resources 156 Part III: The Art of Collaboration Chapter 8: Tasks and Tools 207 Chapter 9: Getting Collaboration Right 240 Chapter 10: Forging the Future: Payoff s and Perils 264 Acknowledgments 289 Index 291
