The Interaction of Formal and Informal Mechanisms in Shared Regulation

Public affairs scholars have written extensively about managing across sectors. They note that public, private, and nonprofit organizations complement each other, each should play important roles within in public policy, and open legal and political systems require such involvement even if an organization wanted to resist it. Research on public management should identify the conditions under which such relationships operate more or less successfully. We normally analyze these issues at the organizational level or higher because the underlyin