Helen SULLIVAN, Collaboration and Public Policy: Agency in the pursuit of public purpose

What is collaboration, other than ‘working together’, and what would it mean in our field, other than working together for some version of the public good? Is that not policy itself? What if we thought not of collaboration as an instrument of public policy, but of public policy as a form of collabor...

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Published inInternational Public Policy Association Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 236 - 238
Main Author Freeman, Richard
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published International Review of Public Policy 31.10.2023
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Summary:What is collaboration, other than ‘working together’, and what would it mean in our field, other than working together for some version of the public good? Is that not policy itself? What if we thought not of collaboration as an instrument of public policy, but of public policy as a form of collaboration?Helen Sullivan is more measured and more sanguine than this, carefully defining collaboration as ‘a more-or-less stable configuration of rules, resources and relationships generated, negotia...
ISSN:2679-3873
2706-6274
DOI:10.4000/irpp.3609