<P><EM>Preface </EM></P><P></P><P>Foreword: Overcoming Adversity through Collaborative Efforts </P><P>Honorable Dan Kildee, Member of US Congress, Fifth District of Michigan</P><I><P></P><P>Introduction: Collaborative Governance for Growth and Development</P></I><P>Denita Cepiku, So Hee Jeon and David Jesuit </P><P></P><I><P>1. From Competition to Collaboration: Using...</p></i></p></p></p></p></i></p></p></p></em></p>

The co-production of public services : the public administration perspective -- Co-production and the service management theory -- Co-production : an integrated perspective -- Co-production through inter-organisational relationships -- Asylum seekers in Scotland : marginalised non-citizens --...

Policy pilots as public sector projects : the projectification of policy and research -- Why is innovation policy projectified? : political causes in the case of sweden -- Problematising the project system : rural development in Indonesia -- Public sector innovation projects : beyond bureaucracy...

Introduction to critical perspectives on the management and organisation of emergency services -- Part 1 -- Emergency services architecture: JESIP and interoperability -- History of the UK paramedic profession -- Personal reflections on fire and rescue service incident command -- Quo Vadis:...

Introduction -- The rise of regulatory governance -- Theories of regulation -- Regulatory space and regulatory regimes -- Policy processes and the regulatory policy cycle -- Bad, better and legitimate regulation -- Define: agenda-setting, issue diagnosis and objective setting -- Design: regime...

Rethinking public service management and renewing democracy: engaging citizens as co-producers of public services -- Beyond exit and voice in enduring welfare services: citizens as co-producers? -- Empowering parents as co-producers of childcare services in Sweden -- Citizens as co-producers of...

Representative democracy and the problem of institutionalizing local participatory governance / Nils Hertting and Clarissa Kugelberg -- Tricky for good reasons : institutionalizing local participatory governance in representative democracy / Marianne Danielsson, Nils Hertting and Erik-Hans Klijn...

Introduction: the inexorable appeal of boundaries in public policy and management -- The concept challenge -- The rise of boundaries -- Classifications of boundaries and their associated impacts for how we view boundaries -- Boundary concepts -- Where next for boundaries? -- The practical...