Problem:
According to Don Kettl: "The conflicts inherent in the role that boundaries play have long made stable boundaries impossible to draw. As a result, both politics and administration have struggled over time as to just where key boundaries ought to be, and the system has accommodated itself to the inevitable uncertainties that surround these cross-pressures. However, new problems are emerging that make even short-term accommodations hard to find. For many key issues, from health care to homeland security, it is hard to match the government's administrative systems to the problems it is charged with solving. The mismatch, in turn, has produced cascading performance problems - and it has become the central problem for modern public administration." In this context, discuss collaborative public management in terms of: a. Major trends in federalism and intergovernmental relations; b. The coordination challenge; c. The ways in which collaborative or network-based solutions are out of sync with bureaucratic culture; d. How this "mismatch" between bureaucratic structure and boundary-crossing problems should be addressed.