Unlocking the Power of Networks

Keys to High-Performance Government

Stephen Goldsmith, Donald F. Kettl

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2009
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780815748953
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Government & Business
• Index: Business

The era of strict top-down, stovepiped public management in America is over. The traditional dichotomy between public ownership and privatization is an outdated notion. Public executives have shifted their focus from managing workers and directly providing services to orchestrating networks of public, private, and nonprofit organizations to deliver those services. Unlocking the Power of Networks employs original sector-specific analyses to reveal how networked governance achieves previously unthinkable policy goals.
Stephen Goldsmith and Donald F. Kettl head a stellar cast of policy practitioners and scholars exploring the potential, strategies, and best practices of high-performance networks while identifying next-generation issues in public-sector network management. They cover the gamut of public policy issues, including national security, and the book even includes a thought-provoking look at how jihadist terrorists use the principles of network management to pursue their goals.
Contributors: William G. Berberich (Virginia Tech), Tim Burke (Harvard University), G. Edward DeSeve (University of Pennsylvania),William D. Eggers (Manhattan Institute), Anne M. Khademian (Virginia Tech), H. Brinton Milward (University of Arizona), Mark H. Moore (Harvard University), Paul Posner (George Mason University), Jörg Raab (Tilburg University), and Barry G. Rabe (University of Michigan).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• The Key to Networked Government
• From Conflict to Collaboration: Lessons in Networked Governance from the Federal Cooperative Conservation Initiative
• Governing the Climate from Sacramento
• Networks in the Shadow of Government: The Chesapeake Bay Program
• Moving from Core Functions to Core Values: Lessons from State Eligibility Modernizations
• "Integration and Innovation" in the Intelligence Community: The Role of a Netcentric Environment, Managed Networks, and Social Networks
• The United States Coast Guard and a Port Security Network of Shared Responsibility
• Dark Networks and the Problem of Islamic Jihadist Terrorism
• Networked Government: Survey of Rationales, Forms, and Techniques
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover