Based on a study of 237 cities within five states, this title provides a look at how city officials work with other governments and organizations to develop their city economies and what makes these collaborations work. It illustrates how public managers address complex problems through strategic partnerships, networks, alliances, and committees.
Offers basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era where government must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies to work together to solve difficult public problems. This title provides techniques in intergovernmental grants and regulation management, purchase-of- service contracting, and more.
Leading authority Robert Agranoff reintroduces intergovernmental management for twenty-first-century governance to a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners.
Viele Bundesstaaten bzw. föderal organisierte Staaten sind durch erhebliche sozio-ökonomische oder verfassungsrechtliche Unterschiede zwischen ihren territorialen Gliedern geprägt. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes, die im Rahmen des 'IPSA Research Committee on Comparative Federalism and Federation' entstanden sind, untersuchen, in welchem Maße derartige Asymmetrien vor allem in heterogen zusammengesetzten Staaten wesentliche Voraussetzung erfolgreichen Regierens sind. Das Buch mit seinen systemvergleichenden Analysen wendet sich sowohl an Wissenschaftler als auch an Vertreter der politischen Praxis. Aus dem Inhalt: R. Agranoff, Power Shifts, Diversity and Asymmetry; R. L. Watts, The Theoretical and Practical Implications of Asymmetrical Federalism; B. Galligan, R. Mulgan, Asymmetric Political Association: The Australasian Experiment; A.-G. Gagnon, C. Gibbs, The Normative Basis of Asymmetrical Federalism; R. Sturm, The Constitution under Pressure: Emerging Asymmetrical Federalism in Germany?; L. Moreno: Asymmetry in Spain; M. Burgess, F. Gress, Asymmetrical Federalism in Canada, the United States and Germany.