The era of textbook top-down, stovepiped public management in
America is over, and the traditional dichotomy between public
ownership and privatization is an outdated notion. Public
executives have shifted their focus from managing workers and
directly providing services to orchestrating networks of public,
private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver those services. In
this new book, Stephen Goldsmith and Donald Kettl head a stellar
cast of policy practitioners and scholars exploring the potential,
strategies, and best practices of high-performance networks while
identifying next-generation issues in public sector network
management. Unlocking the Power of Networks employs sector-specific
analyses to reveal how networked governance achieves previously
unthinkable policy goals. The environmental arena in particular has
proved to be fertile ground for the networked governance movement.
William Eggers, Goldsmith's coauthor of the landmark Governing by
Network, examines the Department of the Interior's initiative
organizing networks of state and local officials, landowners,
businesses, and citizens to protect natural resources. Barry Rabe,
a pioneer in the study of subnational climate policy, looks at the
role of networks in California's aggressive policy on greenhouse
emissions. Former GAO official Paul Posner illustrates how a
network mustered the resources, authority, expertise, and political
support necessary to clean up Chesapeake Bay. American officials
are not the only ones employing networked governance. In a
disquieting chapter, Brinton Milward and Joerg Raab reveal how
Islamic terror organizations have adapted and transformed
themselves since 9/11. In a more hopeful vein, Edward DeSeve
considers how network management could be used in the fight against
terrorism, utilizing new organizational structures, increased
staffing, upgraded technology, and new cross-agency mechanisms.
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