Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview of collaborative governance -- Introduction : stepping in : the context for collaborative governance -- Collaborative governance and collaborative governance regimes -- The integrative framework for collaborative governance -- Initiating collaborative governance : system context, drivers, and regime formation -- Case illustration: national collaborative for higher education -- Collaboration dynamics : principled engagement, shared motivation, and capacity for joint action -- Case illustration : Everglades Restoration Task Force / written by Andrea Gerlack and Tanya Heikkila -- Generating change : collaborative actions, impacts, and adaptation -- Case illustration : military community compatibility committee -- Case studies of collaborative governance regimes -- Who speaks for Toronto? : collaborative governance in the civic action alliance / written by Alison Bramwell -- Collaborative governance in Alaska : responding to climate change threats in Alaska native communities / written by Robin Bronen -- Power and the distribution of knowledge in a local groundwater association in Guadalupe Valley / written by Chantelise Pells -- Collaborative governance regimes -- Moving from genus to species : a typology for collaborative governance regimes -- Assessing the performance of collaborative governance regimes -- Conclusion : stepping back, stepping up, and stepping forward : summary observations and recommendations.

Collaboration among public agencies, across different governmental levels, and/or with the private and civic sectors and the public is increasingly called on to handle the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges we face in the 21st century. Experiments in collaborative public management, multi-partner governance, joined-up or network government, hybrid sectoral arrangements, co-management regimes, participatory governance, and civic engagement have evolved, and in some cases, transformed the way the public's business is getting done. The growth of these innovative collaborative governance systems has outpaced scholarship. While the academic literature has spawned numerous case studies and context- or policy-specific models for collaboration, there have been few efforts to integrate extant knowledge into a framework that is broadly applicable for both research and practice and across sectors, settings, and scales. This book seeks to fill that gap.