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>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> <p>1. Origins of Partnership Governance 2. Trust in Partnership Development 3. Partnership Governance: The role of public entrepreneurship and social capital 4. Business improvement districts: Formal public-private partnerships 5. Performance Measures in Partnership Governance: Lessons from public-private partnership - business improvement districts <strong>Appendix 1:</strong> Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Implementing a Special District <strong>Appendix 2:</strong> Case Study of the Flemington Business Improvement District Planning Process <strong>Appendix 3:</strong> A Universal Public Private-Partnerships/ Managed Business District Survey </p>