Partnership Governance in Public Management
The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor. Partnerships between the public and private sectors allow each to enjoy the benefits of the other: the public sector benefits from increased entrepreneurship, and the private sector utilizes public authority and processes to achieve economic and community revitalization. Partnership Governance in Public Management describes what partnership is in the public sector, as well as how it is managed, measured, and evaluated. Both a theoretical and practical text, this book is a what, why, and how examination of a key function of public management.
Examining governing capacity, community building, downtown revitalization, and partnership governance through the lens of formalized publicprivate partnershipsspecifically, how these partnerships are understood and sustained in our societythis book is essential reading for students and practitioners with an interest in partnership governance and public administration, and management more broadly. Chapters explore partnering technologies as a way to bridge sectors, to produce results and a new sense of public purpose, and to form a stable foundation for governance to flourish.
Seth A. Grossman is the Executive Director of the Ironbound Business Improvement District (IBID) in Newark, New Jersey, and President of Cooperative Professional Services, a consultancy that provides research, planning, and management services to Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). He designed and directs the Rutgers University National Center of Public Performance Online Business Improvement District Management Certification Program.
Marc Holzer is Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, and Board of Governors Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and of the World Academy of Productivity Science. Since 1975 he has directed the National Center for Public Performance, and he is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Public Performance and Management Review and Public Voices.
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Partnership Governance in Public Management
A Public Solutions Handbook
Seth A. Grossman and Marc Holzer
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Grossman, Seth A.
Partnership governance in public management: a public solutions handbook / Seth A. Grossman and Marc Holzer.
pages cm. (The public solutions handbook series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Public-private sector cooperation. 2. Public-private sector cooperation Evaluation. 3. Public administration. 4. Public administrationEvaluation. I. Holzer, Marc. II. Title.
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Contents
The capacities of partnership represent a movement past traditional adversarial relationships often experienced as political and management differences between governments and business. The ability to create and sustain partnerships is a skill and a strategic capacity that utilizes the strengths and offsets the weaknesses of each actor. Such partnerships allow the public sector to enjoy more vigorous entrepreneurship, while allowing the private sector to utilize public authority and its necessary processes to achieve economic and community revitalization. The public sector takes on private aspects and the private sector takes on a measure of public responsibility.
In this book we examine governing capacity, community building, downtown revitalization, and Partnership Governance through the lens of formalized publicprivate partnershipsspecifically, how these partnerships are understood and sustained in our society, and the management technology that moves from theory to practice. The arrival of Partnership Governance is discussed as an evolution of democracy through partnerships and the need for partnership capability in modern public management beyond the progressive era. Both a theoretical and practical textthis book is a what, why, and how examination of a key function of public management: partnering.
For public administration, this phenomenon indicates that government and governance processes are shifting. Centralized hierarchical government is not the progressive element in society that it once was. The acceleration of publicprivate partnerships is an example of informal government that is more horizontally networked and less vertically controlled. Formal government will not go away, yet evidence points to an enhancement of civic responsibility, local management capacity, and sustainable planning by these partnerships. Also, private sector technologies (business administration) were and still are necessary in public realms. Today, however, the technologies of public administration are more and more the skills required for successful private sector operations.
As markets are sustained by civil society, local and global companies must effectively participate in public processes, perceive social impacts, and generate aspects of civil society. The skill set required to do this successfully is derived from public administration and is well defined by the term "Partnership Governance." It integrates and reinterprets necessary activities of society in the management of public concerns. Consequently, we may also find that the skills of public administration are applied in the private sector, as private companies require public solutions to real-life situations. This is not a new phenomenon, but it helps to define public administration in the 21st century. Public managers must be trained in the capacities of partnership desired by civil society, governing entities, and private companies.