Purpose Over the 30 years, public management and administration scholars have crossed disciplinary boundaries to build a body of scholarship on collaboration for public good, services, and values. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Public management and...

The new urban governance requires not only tools (like tax incentives and contracts for privatizing government functions), but also new processes to carry the tools into effect, including deliberation and dialogue for making policy and dispute resolution (like negotiation, mediation, and...

Community mediation programs could be viewed simply as community-based alternatives to court-based adjudicatory systems. Alternatively, they provide broader services and offer deeper benefits as "community-owned" programs that foster citizen participation and democratic governance. However,...

Elinor Ostrom's work on Institutional Analysis and Design (IAD) provides a rigorous framework for examining dispute system design (DSD). It has broad potential application in this emerging field of law. This essay briefly examines the IAD framework and illustrates its application to DSD.