This brief tour of our case data suggest that relying on a neat distinction between collaborative and policy networks simplifies the analyst’s work while doing violence to reality.
In fact, we would go a bit further: The forces that are driving government toward network service provision create a political economy that demands an organizational polity, and the organizational polity feeds the drive toward networked services. It is not possible, in our view, to have one without the other. Thus, it is also not possible to build a conceptual framework for network management without reference to both