ABSTRACT
Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|76 pages
Developing a Theory of Governance for NPG: What Should be at Its Center?
part II|117 pages
NPG and Local Governing Institutions: Transforming Deliberative Democracy into Action
part III|130 pages
Public Service Education and Leadership in an Age of NPG
chapter 17|15 pages
Agency in Networks
Implications for Theory and Practice in the New Public Governance
chapter 20|22 pages
Educating Leaders for New Public Governance
Public Administration as a Liberal Art
