Bureaucrats Without Borders
Public Management and the End of Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15748701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H George Frederickson (University of Kansas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 14-19 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives on Public Management and Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2398-4910 • E-ISSN: 2398-4929 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ppmgov/gvaa027 |
| OpenAlex | W3137148978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 23 |
The “end of geography” thesis rests on claims that there is an extensive disconnection between social, economic, and political problems on one hand and the capacity of public jurisdictions to either contain or effectively deal with those problems on the other hand. The dominant response to the end of geography thesis is an observation that there is extensive interjurisdictional collaboration or governance and a call for further governance or collaboration. The secondary response is jurisdictional reorganization in the direction of regional general or functional consolidation. I will focus on the dominant response to the end of geography—interjurisdictional governance or collaboration (Emerson et al. 2012; Greig 2002; O’Brien 1992). Can we see collaboration? If so, what does it look like? To start to build an answer to these two questions, let me recommend the Kanizsa Square in figure 1 below. What do we see in the Kanizsa Square? We see four circles with notches, like the action figures in a packman game. What else do we see? The four circles are arranged in such a way as to cause us to think we “see” a rectangle. But we actually see that rectangle only in our imaginations. Unlike the black circles, a rectangle is not really there, yet we can “see” it
Consolidation (business · Corporate governance · Disconnection · Economics · Geometry · Management · Political geography · Political science · Politics · Rectangle · Sociology · Square (algebra · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Mathematics · Political Systems and Governance · Public Policy and Administration Research · Law · Public Administration
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Bridge over troubled waters? Experimental evidence into the influence of leadership on employees' collaborative engagement
The Skill Set of the Successful Collaborator
Contemporary Challenges in Local Government
H. George Frederickson as Exemplar of “The Skill Set of the Successful Collaborator”
How Public Service Leadership Is Studied
Moving Publicness Forward
Collaborative Alliances
Global financial integration
Collaboration Processes
The Design and Implementation of Cross‐Sector Collaborations
Ambiguity, Complexity and Dynamics in the Membership of Collaboration
Distant Proximities
Control and Supervision of Field Offices
Do Networks Really Work? A Framework for Evaluating Public‐Sector Organizational Networks
An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
The End of Geography
The Competent Boundary Spanner
The Repositioning of American Public Administration
Treating Networks Seriously
Collaborative Public Management
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |