Introduction: Emerging Coordination Practices in European Public Management

Abstract

Increasing interest in the issues of public sector coordination and joining up separate government bodies into more integrated apparatuses that have informed the international administrative discourse over the past decade form the background of this book. A recent five-country report on governance concluded that horizontal policy-making is becoming ever more important and is one of the key aspects in ensuring that governments are able to tackle contemporary policy challenges (Governments for the Future, 2013). At the same time, states have developed various approaches to counter fragmentation and to make their public sectors more integrated entities (Osborne, 2009; Wegrich, 2010). The new coordination practices have assumed numerous shapes and go under various names, such as integrated governance, outcome steering, joined-up-government (Bogdanor, 2005; Hood, 2005), holistic governance (6 et al., 2002), new public governance (Osborne, 2009), networked government, partnerships, connected government, cross-cutting policy, horizontal management, collaborative public management (Gregory, 2003) and whole-of-government (OECD, 2005; Christensen and Lægreid, 2007a). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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