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Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
John D. Donahue
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Description for Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
Paperback. Demonstrates how government at various levels can engage the private sector to overcome seemingly insurmountable problems and achieve public goals more effectively. This title shows how the public sector can harness private expertise to bolster productivity, capture information, and augment resources. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 line illus. 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPQB; KCP; KFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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 public sector can ... Read more
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 public sector can ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691156309
SKU
V9780691156309
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About John D. Donahue
John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser both teach at the Harvard Kennedy School--Zeckhauser economics and analytics, Donahue public management and business-government relations. They write on related themes, Donahue mostly books (this is his twelfth) while Zeckhauser favors articles (he's done hundreds, several of them seminal). Donahue chairs Harvard's Master in Public Policy program and held senior roles in the ... Read more
Reviews for Collaborative Governance: Private Roles for Public Goals in Turbulent Times
"No one has summed up quite as concisely the transcendent idea behind the deregulation movement of the last fifty years as have Donahue and Zeckhauser: that by carefully granting decision-making authority to private entities, profit and non-profit enterprises alike, government can achieve considerable gains in both efficiency and consent."
David Warsh, Economic Principals "For anybody who has any experience in public ... Read more
David Warsh, Economic Principals "For anybody who has any experience in public ... Read more