Partnership Governance in Public Management

Seth A. Grossman is the Executive Director of the Ironbound Business Improvement District (IBID) in Newark, New Jersey, and President of Cooperative Professional Services, a consultancy that provides research, planning, and management services to Business Improvement Districts (BIDs). He designed and directs the Rutgers University National Center of Public Performance Online Business Improvement District Management Certification Program.Marc Holzer is Dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration, and Board of Governors Professor of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and of the World Academy of Productivity Science. Since 1975 he has directed the National Center for Public Performance, and he is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journals Public Performance and Management Review and Public Voices.

• 1. Origins of Partnership Governance 2. Trust in Partnership Development 3. Partnership Governance: The role of public entrepreneurship and social capital 4. Business improvement districts: Formal public-private partnerships 5. Performance Measures in Partnership Governance: Lessons from public-private partnership - business improvement districts Appendix 1: Step-by-Step Guide to Planning and Implementing a Special District Appendix 2: Case Study of the Flemington Business Improvement District Planning Process Appendix 3: A Universal Public Private-Partnerships/ Managed Business District Survey

'This is a timely book that presents fresh insights into the endlessly vexatious problem of partnership governance. By synthesizing cutting-edge theory with empirical perspectives from Business Improvement Districts, Grossman and Holzer have crafted a work that will surely benefit policy makers, public managers and academics alike.' - Michael Macaulay, Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand