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Today, the work of government often involves coordination at the federal, state, and local levels as well as with contractors and citizens' groups. This process of governance across levels of government, jurisdictions, and types of actors is called intergovernmental relations, and intergovernmental management (IGM) is the way work is administered in this increasingly complex system. Leading authority Robert Agranoff reintroduces intergovernmental management for twenty-first-century governance to a new generation of scholars, students, and practitioners

Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a decentralized one, from authoritarian politics to a self-conscious, civil society with a developed welfare state within a European context.

Collaborating to Manage captures the basic ideas and approaches to public management in an era wheregovernment must partner with external organizations as well as other agencies towork together to solve difficult public problems. In this primer, Robert Agranoffexamines current and emergent approaches and techniques in intergovernmental grantsand regulation management, purchase-of-service contracting, networking,public/nonprofit partnerships and other lateral arrangements in the context of thechanging public agency. As he steers the reader through various ways of coping withsuch organizational

Spain has been changing its institutional framework in important ways over the past thirty years. The country has gone from a dictatorship to a democracy, from a unitary state to a decentralized one, from authoritarian politics to a self-conscious, civil society with a developed welfare state within a European context.

Public networks -- Networks in public management -- Toward a network typology : methodology of the study -- Informational and developmental networks -- Outreach and action networks -- Collaborarchy : a different kind of management? -- Networks as knowledge managers -- Do network perform? adding value and accounting for costs -- Networks at the boundaries of the state -- Managing in public networks

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