ABSTRACT
We noted in Chapter 5 that public policy is increasingly being made through the interaction of many different groups and organizations, overlapping and often competing in their interests and jurisdictions and engaged in efforts to meet both individual and collective goals through an open-ended, fluid, and often chaotic process. We also noted some of the ways in which citizens' views can be brought to bear on that process of building public policy in a democratic fashion. Here we will focus more on the way in which various groups and interests can be brought together in a collaborative manner to achieve mutually satisfactory ends. More particularly, we will ask how leadership can be brought to bear where "no one is in charge." Under those circumstances, in which there is little evidence of formal or traditional leadership, there may seem to be a vacuum of leadership-at least if we think of leadership primarily as the exercise of power over others. Leadership is still needed; in fact, leadership is needed more than ever. What is needed, however, is leadership of a new kind.
