Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management

by Robert Agranoff, Robert Agranoff (Contribution by)

Overview

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.

Agranoff examines IGM in the United States from four thematic perspectives: law and politics, jurisdictional interdependency, multisector partners, and networks and networking. Common wisdom holds that government has “hollowed out” despite this present era of contracting and networked governance, but he argues that effective intergovernmental management has never been more necessary or important. He concludes by offering six next steps for intergovernmental management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626164802
Publisher:	Georgetown University Press
Publication date:	09/12/2017
Series:	Public Management and Change series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Agranoff is professor emeritus at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University and is affiliated with the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset in Madrid. He is the author of Collaborating to Manage, Managing within Networks, and coauthor of Collaborative Public Management, for which they received the Louis Brownlow Book Award from the National Academy of Public Administration and the Martha Derthick Award from the American Political Science Association.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations PrefaceIntroduction: Politics, Government, Managementacross Boundaries1. Federal Framing of Intergovernmental Relationsand Intergovernmental Management2. Integrating the Federal System through Law and Politics3. Legally and Politically Based Intergovernmental Relationsin Practice4. Jurisdictional Interdependence5. Managing Interdependency6. Intergovernmental Management Partnershipswith Nongovernmental Organizations7. Managing Intergovernmental Management Partnerships8. The Network Era9. Organized Intergovernmental Management Networks Conclusion: The Past and Future of IntergovernmentalManagementReferencesIndexAbout the Author

What People are Saying About This

Dale Krane

Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management takes one on a journey into the matrix of federalism to examine the evolution of management in intergovernmental relations. Agranoff synthesizes a large body of theory and research to illuminate the increasing reliance on the cross-sectoral delivery of publicly funded services. The book also offers practical guidance on public-private collaboration that will be valuable for on-the-job public servants as well as scholars and students. The volume is a worthy successor to the scholarship of Elazar and Wright.

Kathleen Hale

In Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management, Robert Agranoff breaks new ground with the concepts of interoperability and government stewardship in networked environments. Remarkable in its synthesis and rich detail, Crossing Boundaries is essential reading for public administration, public policy, and nonprofit students and scholars alike.

Tim Conlan

In Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management, Bob Agranoff provides a sweeping overview of the evolution and challenges of managing within our complex systems of intergovernmental relations and third party governance. He skillfully weaves together his many strands of research on federalism and intergovernmental management into a multi-dimensional framework of history, law, administration, and politics. The result might very well be considered his magnum opus—and surely a book that all students and scholars of federalism and public administration will want to read.

Christopher Koliba

In this well researched and conceived book, Robert Agranoff presents a cross cutting, networked and timely look at intergovernmental relations. He accomplishes this by integrating network governance, collaborative management and IRG theory and illustrating this integration through many examples. This portrait of modern governance could only be written by a person with decades of study, original thinking, and border crossings that has marked Agranoff's career.

Editorial Reviews

refines and builds on the author’s impressive career contributions to our understanding of IGR and IGM, synthesizes and applies other researchers’ findings, and addresses some of the remaining ambiguities such as about understanding of networks and networking. . . . Robert Agranoff’s magnum opus is a valuable and welcome contribution to both theory and practice.

Publius: The Journal of Federalism

refines and builds on the author's impressive career contributions to our understanding of IGR and IGM, synthesizes and applies other researchers' findings, and addresses some of the remaining ambiguities such as about understanding of networks and networking. . . . Robert Agranoff's magnum opus is a valuable and welcome contribution to both theory and practice.

Finally-a good book on intergovernmental management . . . This book is written to help the 21st-century reader appreciate how complex but necessary intergovernmental relations have become.

From the Publisher

Finally—a good book on intergovernmental management . . . This book is written to help the 21st-century reader appreciate how complex but necessary intergovernmental relations have become.

Choice

In Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management, Bob Agranoff provides a sweeping overview of the evolution and challenges of managing within our complex systems of intergovernmental relations and third party governance. He skillfully weaves together his many strands of research on federalism and intergovernmental management into a multi-dimensional framework of history, law, administration, and politics. The result might very well be considered his magnum opus—and surely a book that all students and scholars of federalism and public administration will want to read.

Tim Conlan

In this well researched and conceived book, Robert Agranoff presents a cross cutting, networked and timely look at intergovernmental relations. He accomplishes this by integrating network governance, collaborative management and IRG theory and illustrating this integration through many examples. This portrait of modern governance could only be written by a person with decades of study, original thinking, and border crossings that has marked Agranoff's career.

Christopher Koliba

Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management takes one on a journey into the matrix of federalism to examine the evolution of management in intergovernmental relations. Agranoff synthesizes a large body of theory and research to illuminate the increasing reliance on the cross-sectoral delivery of publicly funded services. The book also offers practical guidance on public-private collaboration that will be valuable for on-the-job public servants as well as scholars and students. The volume is a worthy successor to the scholarship of Elazar and Wright.

Dale Krane

In Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management, Robert Agranoff breaks new ground with the concepts of interoperability and government stewardship in networked environments. Remarkable in its synthesis and rich detail, Crossing Boundaries is essential reading for public administration, public policy, and nonprofit students and scholars alike.

Kathleen Hale