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Collaboration is the process of multiple stakeholders sharing resources and working together toward the achievement of a common goal.
Local government refers to the administration of a town, county, or other municipal jurisdiction by public officials.
Introduction
Public administration literature within the last few decades has seen an emergence of collaboration scholarship as a distinctive field of study (McKinney and Field 2008; Thomson et al. 2009). As this discipline developed, it has diverged in several unrelated directions leaving many gaps concerning the fundamental aspects of collaboration literature and theory. One of the most prominent fissures is the lack of a universally accepted definition of collaboration. Although this lack of consensus is not endemic to collaboration literature, it certainly poses difficulties for those attempting to grasp the core elements of this theory. Prior to...
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Mayer, M., Kenter, R. (2016). Public Sector Collaboration and Social Policy. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2629-1
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