Politics of Collaborative Public Management

Explores the process and operations of collaboration and collaborative politics, from routine transactions, or "small p" politics, to the significant issue forces or "big P" politics.Introduces readers to analysis of key findings in collaborative politics from the long research tradition in policy and political science.Adapts a series of stories to highlight some of collaborative politics’ dynamics, from a range of jurisdictions.Analyzes the efficacy of storytelling as a learning tool and contributor to practice in different contexts. Demonstrates how interorganization/interagency collaboration operates and is managed, as well as how it has been modified or adjusted in its fundamental core concepts of bureaucratic organization and hierarchy.