Multiorganizational Arrangements for Watershed Protection (PDF)

John Charles Morris is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Auburn University. He has studied collaboration, public-private partnerships, and state comparative policy for more than twenty-five years, and has published widely in public administration and public policy. Dr. Morris has a significant number of publications. He is the co-editor of Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South (2010), and True Green: Executive Effectiveness in the US Environmental Protection Agency (2012). Dr. Morris is also the co-editor of Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development, published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, in 2008, and is the co-editor of a three-volume series (2012) on prison privatization, titled Prison Privatization: The Many Facets of a Controversial Industry. His most recent co-authored books include The Case for Grassroots Collaboration: Social Capital and Ecosystem Restoration at the Local Level (2013); Advancing Collaboration Theory: Models, Typologies, and Evidence (2016; Routledge, co-edited with Katrina Miller-Stevens); State Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Choices and Decisions (2019, Routledge); and Organizational Motivation for Collaboration: Theory and Evidence (forthcoming 2019, with Luisa Diaz-Kope). In addition, he has published more than sixty-five articles in refereed journals, and nearly forty book chapters, reports, and other publications.