TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donahue,John D
AU  - Zeckhauser, Richard J
TI  - Collaborative governance: private roles for public goals in turbulent times 
SN  - 9780691149790
U1  - 352.37 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Public goods
KW  - Public
KW  - private sector cooperation
KW  -  United States
N1  - 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
ER  -