1. Making public policy decisions / Damon Alexander and Jenny M. Lewis -- 2. Not only what, but how : the role of expertise in developing public sector leadership / Richard T. Marcy -- 3. How governments think : skills, expertise, and experience in public policy making / Damon Alexander, Jenny...

Partnerships represent a prescriptive form of network governance, based on the idea of cooperation. This article has four aims. The first is to describe why network governance and partnerships are important now, and what one particular example - Primary Care Partnerships - is addressing. The...