ABSTRACT
Collaborative public management, managing across boundaries, leveraging networks, and governance through networking are contemporary concepts that characterize a near tsunami sweeping across recent public administration literature. Federalism (FED) was an idea as well as a set of formal legal governance arrangements present and prominent in the founding of the Republic. Across more than two centuries the character and operational meaning of FED has been shaped and reshaped. Whichever singular, combination, or convergent usage of the terms FED, intergovernmental relations (IGR), and intergovernmental management (IGM) is employed, their relevance has been central to practice, research, and teaching. Linkages between FED, IGR, and IGM and the current concepts of governance, collaboration, and networking are informative and instructive. World and national events have provided critical contexts for FED, IGR, and IGM since 2000. First, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Katrina disaster, numerous articles were published dealing with terrorism, homeland security, natural disasters, and emergency management.
