Collaborative governance : private roles for public goals in turbulent times /
John D Donahue and Richard J Zeckhauser
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011
- xiii, 305p. 24cm.
In this book, authors show how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources. The authors explain how private engagement in public missions--rightly structured and skillfully managed--is not so much an alternative to government as the way smart government ought to operate. The key is to carefully and strategically grant discretion to private entities, whether for-profit or nonprofit, in ways that simultaneously motivate and empower them to create public value. Drawing on a host of real-world examples-including charter schools, job training, and the resurrection of New York's Central Park--they show how, when, and why collaboration works, and also under what circumstances it doesn't.
9780691149790
Public goods. Public--private sector cooperation-- United States