Collaboration has become one of the defining characteristics of contemporary governance. Governments increasingly encourage institutions to work together across organisational, disciplinary and territ...

Government decisions are often presented as if they were the outcome of a single authority acting with unified purpose and complete understanding. In reality, modern governments rarely function in thi...

Modern governance increasingly depends upon networks rather than isolated organisations. Public institutions collaborate across administrative, geographical and disciplinary boundaries in order to add...

Modern governance depends upon far more than the competence of individual public institutions. No ministry, agency, municipality or regulatory authority possesses sufficient knowledge to understand ev...