Includes bibliographical references and index. Morgan, D. F., & Cook, B. J. (Eds.). (2015). New public governance: A regime-centered perspective. New York, NY: Routledge.

Part I: Developing a theory of governance for NPG: what should be at its center? -- The foundations of new public governance -- Why a constitutional approach matters for advancing new public governance -- Institutional history and new public governance -- A value-based global framework for new public governance History as a source of values for new public governance -- Two kinds of rationality and their implications for new public governance -- Part II: NPG and local governing institutions: transforming deliberate democracy into action -- The American constitutional legacy and the deliberative democracy environment of new public governance -- Civic capacity assessment framework -- Building capacity in culturally diverse communities through community engagement in hard times -- Forging vertical and horizontal integration in public administrative leadership and management -- Civic infrastructure and capacity building: lessons from the field -- Local government as polity leadership: implications for new public governance -- Interest-based deliberative democracy in natural resource management -- Multilevel environmental governance of conservation programs -- Part III: Public service education and leadership in an age of NPG -- Regime leadership for public servants -- Competing needs, expectations, and realities in local government education -- Agency in networks: implications for theory and practice in the new public governance -- EMERGE: public leadership for sustainable development -- Preparing the next generation for local government leadership -- Educating leaders for new public governance: public administration as a liberal art -- Rethinking U.S. public administration doctoral education in the age of new public governance -- Educating the new public governance: civic engagement and the liberal arts -- Epilogue: research questions to improve the theory and practice of NPG

New public governance: a regime-centered perspective focuses on a different set of issues than those commonly found in the emerging work on new public governance (NPG). The chapters are organized around the following central questions: What can we do to ensure that the structures and processes of authority in networked governance systems are firmly tethered to the underlying core values and legal principles of the political system? the book argues that NPG requires public administrators to be much clearer than they have been in the past about the constitutional and political values that provide th framework for their work. Chapters are written by scholars who have been at the forefront of the NPG debate as well as by scholar-practitioners, this book provides lessons learned from experience on how networked, contract-based and partnership-centered approaches to government can be undertaken in ways that preserve the values at the center of the American constitutional and political system. - From the Book