Professor Jane Fountain (political science and public policy) spoke about collaborative governance during a special edition earlier this month of Federal News Radio’s program the Business of Government Hour.
During the hour-long interview Fountain highlighted findings from her report Implementing Cross-Agency Collaboration: A Guide for Federal Managers, published by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Cross-agency collaborations are more manageable today, and even encouraged, thanks in part to recent legal changes as well as advances in technology. Fountain’s interview focuses on how managers can foster cross-agency collaboration as a way of doing business and serving the public. Throughout the program, she called on her empirical research from the last three presidential administrations.
Fountain also serves as the director of the National Center for Digital Government (NCDG), housed at the Center for Public Policy and Administration at UMass Amherst. NCDG was created with support from the National Science Foundation to develop research and infrastructure for the emerging field of information technology and governance. CPPA is the hub of interdisciplinary public policy research, teaching and engagement at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.