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Improving Impact: Collaborative Multi-Party, Multi-Sector Engagement (2011), Marcy Murninghan
Improving Impact: Collaborative Multi-Party, Multi-Sector Engagement (2011), Marcy Murninghan
New England Journal of Public Policy
Most people do not realize the full implications of the fact that we live now in an era marked more by networks than hierarchies. Nowadays, power is distributed across boundaries and borders, rather than concentrated in one place—be it a physical setting, demographic group, industrial sector, or professional discipline. Thanks to systems thinking and the ubiquity of digital tools and platforms, there are many more opportunities for lawmakers, policymakers, and economic institutions to collaborate with concerned citizens on critical public issues, thereby breaking the grip of lobbyists, third-party intermediaries, and the power elite. On top of that are recent breakthroughs …