New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective

Written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system.

Preface

Part I. Developing a Theory of Governance for NPG: What Should Be at Its Center?
1. The Foundations of New Public Governance, Douglas F. Morgan and Craig W. Shinn
2. Why a Constitutional Approach Matters for Advancing New Public Governance, Stephanie P. Newbold
3. Institutional History and New Public Governance, Richard T. Green
4. A Value-Based Global Framework for New Public Governance, Douglas F. Morgan, Gary L. Larsen, Guoxian Bao, and Xuejun Wang
5. History as a Source of Values for New Public Governance, Donald P. Moynihan
6. Two Kinds of Rationality and Their Implications for New Public Governance, Michael W. Spicer

Part II. NPG and Local Governing Institutions: Transforming Deliberative Democracy into Action
7. The American Constitutional Legacy and the Deliberative Democracy Environment of New Public Governance, Vera Vogelsang-Coombs
8. Civic Capacity Assessment Framework, Margaret Banyan
9. Building Capacity in Culturally Diverse Communities Through Community Engagement in Hard Times, Claudia Maria Vargas
10. Forging Vertical and Horizontal Integration in Public Administration Leadership and Management, Gary L. Larsen
11. Civic Infrastructure and Capacity Building: Lessons from the Field, Don Bohn
12. Local Government as Polity Leadership: Implications for New Public Governance, Kent S. Robinson and Douglas F. Morgan
13. Interest-Based Deliberative Democracy in Natural Resource Management, Debra Whitall, Craig Thomas, Steve Brink, and Gina Bartlett
14. Multilevel Environmental Governance of Conservation Programs, Shpresa Halimi and Craig W. Shinn

Part III. Public Service Education and Leadership in an Age of NPG
15. Regime Leadership for Public Servants, Brian J. Cook
16. Competing Needs, Expectations, and Realities in Local Government Education, Phillip J. Cooper
17. Agency in Networks: Implications for Theory and Practice in the New Public Governance, Eric T. (Rick) Mogren
18. EMERGE: Public Leadership for Sustainable Development, Kristen Magis, Marcus Ingle, and Ngo Huy Duc
19. Preparing the Next Generation for Local Government Leadership, Scott Lazenby
20. Educating Leaders for New Public Governance: Public Administration as a Liberal Art, Douglas F. Morgan
21. Rethinking U.S. Public Administration Doctoral Education in the Age of New Public Governance, Stephanie P. Newbold and David H. Rosenbloom
22. Educating for New Public Governance: Civic Engagement and the Liberal Arts, Kevin Kecskes, Masami Nishishiba, and Douglas F. Morgan
23. Epilogue: Research Questions to Improve the Theory and Practice of NPG, Douglas F. Morgan, Craig W. Shinn, and Brian J. Cook

References
About the Authors
Index