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Public Affairs Faculty

Michael McGuire
Associate Professor

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995

Professor McGuire’s research and teaching interests focus on managing networks, collaboration, public management, intergovernmental relations, and economic development. His research includes a study of collaborative management in economic development in 237 cities in the Midwest.Currently, he is working on a study of emergency management preparedness and intergovernmental collaboration in county-level agencies. Prior to his current appointment, he served as director of the Master of Public Administration program at the University of North Texas.

Professor McGuire is co-author (with Robert Agranoff) of Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments, published by Georgetown University Press, which won the 2003 Louis Brownlow Book Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration. His work can also be found in Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, International Journal of Public Administration, American Review of Public Administration, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Policy Studies Review, Economic Development Quarterly, The Effective Local Government Manager, and other journals and edited volumes.

He has consulted for the Denton County, TX Mental Health and Mental Retardation Agency, the United Way in Denton and Dallas Counties, the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Texas Coalition of Cities for Utility Issues, the Parliamentary Development Project in Ukraine, and The Nature Conservancy, and A.B. Graham Center in Dayton, OH.

Awards

Recent Publications

McGuire, Michael. 2007. “The New Professionalism and Collaborative Activity in Local Emergency Management.” In The Collaborative Public Manager, edited by Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (forthcoming).

Bingham, Lisa, Beth Gazley, Michael McGuire, and Rosemary O’Leary. 2007. “Public Managers in Collaboration.” In The Collaborative Public Manager, edited by Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press (forthcoming).

McGuire, Michael. 2006. “Collaborative Public Management: Assessing What We Know and How We Know It.” Public Administration Review 66 (Supplement to Volume 66):33-43.

McGuire, Michael. 2006. “Intergovernmental Management: A View from the Bottom.” Public Administration Review 66(5):677-679.

McGuire, Michael. 2004. “Relating to Other Organizations.” In The Effective Local Government Manager, edited by Charldean Newell (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association, 181-208

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 2004. “Another Look at Bargaining and Negotiation in Intergovernmental Management,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14(4):495-512. (Reprinted in American Intergovernmental Relations, edited by Laurence J. O’Toole, 4th ed. Washington D.C., Congressional Quarterly Press, 293-307.)

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 2003. Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. (2003 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration)

McGuire, Michael. 2003. “State Government Administration of Rural Development Policy.” In Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1132-1136.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 2003. “Inside the Matrix: Integrating the Paradigms of Intergovernmental and Network Management,” International Journal of Public Administration 26(12):1401-1422.

McGuire, Michael. 2002. “Managing Networks: Propositions on What Managers Do and Why They Do It,” Public Administration Review 62(5):599-609.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 2001. “American Federalism and the Search for Models of Management,” Public Administration Review 61(6):671-681.

Agranoff, Robert and Michael McGuire. 2001. “Big Questions in Public Network Management Research,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 11(3):295-326.