Collaborative Governance Regimes breaks new conceptual and practical ground by presenting an integrative framework for working across boundaries to solve shared problems, a typology for understanding variations among collaborative governance regimes, and an approach for assessing both process and productivity performance.

Preface Part I: An Overview of Collaborative GovernanceIntroduction: Stepping In-The Context for Collaborative Governance 1. Collaborative Governance and Collaborative Governance Regimes Part II: The Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance2. Initiating Collaborative Governance: The System Context,Drivers, and Regime Formation Case Illustration: National Collaborative for Higher Education3. Collaboration Dynamics: Principled Engagement, SharedMotivation, and the Capacity for Joint Action Case Illustration: The Everglades Restoration Task Force,by Tanya Heikkila and Andrea K. Gerlak 4. Generating Change: Collaborative Actions, Outcomes, andAdaptationCase Illustration: The Military Community CompatibilityCommittee Part III: Case Studies of Collaborative Governance Regimes5. Who Speaks for Toronto? Collaborative Governance in theCivic Action Alliance, by Alison Bramwell 6. Collaborative Governance in Alaska: Responding to ClimateChange Threats in Alaska Native Communities, by Robin Bronen7. Power and the Distribution of Knowledge in a LocalGroundwater Association in Guadalupe Valley, Mexicoby Chantelise Pells Part IV: Collaborative Governance Regimes8. Moving from Genus to Species: A Typology of CollaborativeGovernance Regimes 9. Assessing the Performance of Collaborative GovernanceRegimes Conclusion: Stepping Back, Stepping Up, and Stepping Forward-Summary Observations and Recommendations Glossary ReferencesAbout the Authors and ContributorsIndex

Collaborative Governance Regimes challenges scholars to discipline the study of collaborative governance in order to strengthen its pratice. . . . A significant, much needed, and long overdue step in the right direction.

This is the best book ever published on collaborative governance. The authors have created a new analytic framework that encompasses all prior work on the topic. Every scholar of collaborative governance should own this book.

This is the best book ever published on collaborative governance. The authors have created a new analytic framework that encompasses all prior work on the topic. Every scholar of collaborative governance should own this book. -- Craig Thomas, professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington Emerson and Nabatchi have written a marvelous and timely book on one of the most important public administration topics of our time-collaborative governance. The book is theoretically rich, practically useful, and very well written. It is a must-read for all those wanting to, or needing to, collaborate to advance the common good. -- John Bryson, McKnight Presidential Professor of Planning and Public Affairs, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota This volume offers a compelling framework for understanding collaborative governance and the authors apply that framework to actual cases. It is rare that such an intellectually-grounded pursuit can result in usable and actionable knowledge. This book does just that. -- Michael McGuire, professor and executive associate dean for Bloomington School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University