Networked Governance: The Future of Intergovernmental Management Paperback - 2011

Jack W. Meek is University of La Verne Academy Professor and Professor of Public Administration at the College of Business and Public Management at the University of La Verne where he is Coordinator of Research & Graduate Studies and Chair of the Master of Public Administration Program. Jack′s research focuses on metropolitan governance including the emergence of administrative connections and relationships in local government, regional collaboration and partnerships, policy networks and citizen engagement. Jack has published with the International Journal of Public Administration, Public Administration Quarterly, The Journal of Public Administration Education, Administrative Theory and Practice, and the Public Productivity and Management Review, Public Administration Review and Emergence: Complexity and Organization and currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Organizational Theory and Behavior, Journal of Globalization Studies and Social Agenda. Jack′s most recent publication is a co-authored book with Chris Koliba and Asim Zia, Governance Networks in Public Administration and Public Policy (2010) with CRC Press.

Kurt Thurmaier is Professor and Director of the Division Public Administration at Northern Illinois Unversity. His research interests include state and local public budgeting and finance, intergovernmental relations, comparative public management, and financing e-government, in which he has done extensive research, publication and teaching. His career includes four years in the Wisconsin State Budget Office as a budget and management analyst, a Fulbright Scholarship at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, consultant work with Polish local governments through the International City/County Management Association, and consultant work on US city-county consolidation efforts. He is an academic member of ICMA and the Illinois City/County Management Association, and the National Association of County Administrators. In addition to numerous published articles, his books include Policy and Politics in State Budgeting (with Katherine Willoughby) and two books on consolidation, including Case Studies of City-County Consolidations: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape and Case Studies of City-County Consolidations: Promises Made, Promises Kept? (both with Suzanne Leland).