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How Information Matters: Networks and Public Policy Innovation

How Information Matters: Networks and Public Policy Innovation

Hale, Kathleen
Hale, Kathleen

Paperback

Series: Public Management and Change

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1589017005
ISBN13: 9781589017009
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: Mar 11 2011
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.53 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

How Information Matters examines the ways a network of state and local governments and nonprofit organizations can enhance the capacity for successful policy change by public administrators. Hale examines drug courts, programs that typify the highly networked, collaborative environment of public administrators today. These special dockets implement justice but also drug treatment, case management, drug testing, and incentive programs for non-violent offenders in lieu of jail time. In a study that spans more than two decades, Hale shows ways organizations within the network act to champion, challenge, and support policy innovations over time. Her description of interactions between courts, administrative agencies, and national organizations highlight the evolution of collaborative governance in the state and local arena, with vignettes that share specific experiences across six states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, and Tennessee) and ways that they acquired knowledge from the network to make decisions.

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