Part 1. Setting the scene: challenges and prospects for collaboration. Collaborative government: meanings, dimensions, drivers and outcomes -- Governing through collaboration -- The changing nature of government: network governance -- Doing Things Collaboratively: Realizing the Advantage or Succumbing to Inertia? -- Hit or myth? Stories of collaborative success -- Collaborative governance: the community sector and collaborative network governance -- Part 2. The reality of collaboration: success, failure, challenges and questions. What works and why: collaborating in a crisis -- Collaboration in education -- From collaboration to coercion: a story of governance failure, success and opportunity in Australian Indigenous affairs -- The PPP phenomenon: performance and governance insights -- Perspectives of community organisations: The Smith Family experience -- Collaborative approaches to 'people-based' and 'place-based' issues in Victoria -- Formal collaboration, collaborative councils and community engagement -- Collaborative democracy: the citizen's ability to collaborate effectively -- Part 3. Collaboration abroad: comparative perspectives. Galvanising government--non-profit/voluntary sector relations: two Canadian cases to consider -- Collaboration with the third sector: UK perspectives -- Part 4. Collaboration: rhetoric and reality. Elusive appeal or aspirational ideal? The rhetoric and reality of the 'collaborative turn' in public policy -- Postscript.

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"Provides important insights into the potential of collaboration, but also the fiercely stubborn barriers to adopting more collaborative approaches to policy and implementation."--Abstract

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

English.

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