Crossing Boundaries for Intergovernmental Management

Robert Agranoff

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781626164802, 9781626164796
• eBook ISBN: 9781626164819
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Public Affairs & Administration
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: Politics, Government, Management across Boundaries
• 1 Federal Framing of Intergovernmental Relations and Intergovernmental Management
• 2 Integrating the Federal System through Law and Politics
• 3 Legally and Politically Based Intergovernmental Relations in Practice
• 4 Jurisdictional Interdependence
• 5 Managing Interdependency
• 6 Intergovernmental Management Partnerships with Nongovernmental Organizations
• 7 Managing Intergovernmental Management Partnerships
• 8 The Network Era
• 9 Organized Intergovernmental Management Networks
• Conclusion: The Past and Future of Intergovernmental Management
• References
• Index
• About the Author