Partnership Governance in Public Management

<p>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. <i>Partnership Governance in Public Management</i> 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.</p> <p></p> <p>Examining governing capacity community building downtown revitalization and partnership governance through the lens of formalized public-private partnerships - specifically how these partnerships are understood and sustained in our society - this 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. </p>