Collaboration and Public Policy

Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration's appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across time and space. It provides a novel and comprehensive framework for analysing collaboration, that will be of use to those interested in understanding what happens when human actors collaborate for public purpose.

Interrogates the concept of collaboration in the context of public policy and management Situates human actors at the centre of analysis, and draws on empirical examples across time and space Provides a novel and comprehensive framework for analysing what happens when human actors collaborate in public policy

Autorentext

Helen Sullivan is Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The collaborative conundrum in public policy.- 2. A framework for analysing collaboration: actors, collaborative domains, and public policy elements.- 3. Ideas, agency, and collaboration.- 4. Rules, agency, and collaboration.- 5. Ethics, agency, and collaboration.- 6. Expertise, agency, and collaboration.- 7. Emotions, agency, and collaboration.- 8. Objects, agency, and collaboration.- 9. Practice, agency, and collaboration.- 10. Conclusion. Prospects and possibilities for public policy collaboration.