Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction: The collaborative conundrum in public policy2. A framework for analysing collaboration: actors, collaborativedomains, and public policy elements3. Ideas, agency, and collaboration4. Rules, agency, and collaboration5. Ethics, agency, and collaboration6. Expertise, agency, and collaboration7. Emotions, agency, and collaboration8. Objects, agency, and collaboration9. Practice, agency, and collaboration10. Conclusion. Prospects and possibilities for public policy collaboration
Synopsis
Collaboration is a ubiquitous yet contested feature of contemporary public policy. This book offers a new account of collaboration's appeal to human actors drawing on empirical examples across time and space. It provides a novel and comprehensive framework for analysing collaboration, that will be of use to those interested in understanding what happens when human actors collaborate for public purpose.