| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Private roles for public goals -- Rationales and reservations -- The delegator's dilemma -- Collaboration for productivity -- Collaboration for information -- Collaboration for legitimacy -- Collaboration for resources -- Tasks and tools -- Getting collaboration right -- Forging the future: payoffs and perils. |
| Summary |
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and bridges fall into disrepair. Health care costs too much and delivers too little. Budgets bleed red ink as the cost of services citizens want outstrips the taxes they are willing to pay. Collaborative Governance is the first book to offer solutions by demonstrating how government at every level can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. John Donahue and Richard Zeckhauser show how the p. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public-private sector cooperation -- United States.
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Public-private sector cooperation. |
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United States. |
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Public goods.
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Public goods. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Zeckhauser, Richard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Donahue, John D. Collaborative governance. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691149790 (DLC) 2010041767 (OCoLC)667990381 |
| ISBN |
9781400838103 (electronic book) |
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140083810X (electronic book) |
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9780691149790 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691149798 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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