Managing the hollow state Collaboration and contracting |
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Authors: | H Brinton Milward Keith Provan |
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Institution: | School of Public Administration and Policy University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721, USA |
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Abstract: | This article presents what the authors have learned about managing networks of public, private and nonprofit service providers in the context of decentralized and devolved governmental regimes - what the authors have termed the hollow state. The characteristics of the hollow state are discussed along with two strategies for managing networks of organizations that jointly produce a public service - collaboration and contracting. The article revisits the authors' preliminary theory of network effectiveness, based on a four-city study of mental health in light of an evolutionary study conducted on one city's mental health system over four years. |
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Keywords: | Collaboration contracting governance hollow state mental health networks |
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