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Hellmut Wollmann

In: Handbook of Public Administration

Chapter 47: Coordination in the Intergovernmental Setting

Edited by: B. Guy Peters & Jon Pierre

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781848608214.n48

Subject: Public Administration (general)

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Wollmann, H. (2003). Coordination in the intergovernmental setting. In B. G. Peters & J. Pierre Handbook of public administration (pp. 594-606). London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n48

Wollmann, Hellmut. "Coordination in the Intergovernmental Setting." In Handbook of Public Administration, 594-606. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003. doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n48.

Wollmann, H 2003, 'Coordination in the intergovernmental setting', in Handbook of public administration, SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 594-606, viewed 6 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n48.

Wollmann, Hellmut. "Coordination in the Intergovernmental Setting." Handbook of Public Administration. B. G. Peters and Jon Pierre. London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2003. 594-606. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 6 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781848608214.n48.

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Coordination in the Intergovernmental Setting
Coordination in the intergovernmental setting
Definition, Focus and Structure of the Chapter

Coordination (in its process dimension) can be understood (for a definition, see also Peters, 1998; Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000: 79ff.) as the attempt to optimize the coherence and consistency of political decisions as well as policy implementation

  • across policies (in order to overcome the sectoral fragmentation of policies and to achieve comprehensive and ‘holistic’ responses to complex problems);
  • across actors and stakeholders (in order to accommodate the often-conflicting interests of political, socio-economic, administrative, professional etc. actors and actor ‘communities’); and
  • across levels (in order to overcome the vertical fragmentation of policies and actors -with coordination problems posed not least by the vertical actors communities, ‘silos’ and ‘comradeships’ sectorally entrenched and colluding across levels ...

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