Thinking Harder About Outcomes for Collaborative Governance Arrangements

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Rogers ◽  
Edward P. Weber
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Integrating collaborative governance theory with the Advocacy Coalition Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Koebele
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Advocacy Coalition Framework ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
Governance Theory ◽  
Governance Process ◽  
Original Case ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
Governance Arrangements

AbstractAs collaborative governance processes continue to grow in popularity, practitioners and policy scholars alike can benefit from the development of methods to better analyse and evaluate them. This article develops one such method by demonstrating how collaborative governance theory can be integrated with the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to better explain coalition dynamics, policy-oriented learning and policy change in collaborative contexts. I offer three theoretical propositions that suggest alternate relationships among ACF variables under collaborative governance arrangements and illustrate these propositions using interview data from an original case study of a collaborative governance process in Colorado, USA. The integration of collaborative governance theory with the ACF improves its application in collaborative contexts and provides new theoretical insights into the study and practice of collaborative governance.

scholarly journals Surmounting Boundaries: Closing The Governance Gap Governance Arrangements In Public Sector Ict Shared Services

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Customer Service ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Shared Services ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Governance Arrangements

<p>Hundreds of millions of dollars of public money have been spent creating Public Sector ICT Shared Services (PSISS) based on expectations of improved customer service and cost reduction. Unfortunately, the promised benefits have often failed to materialise and governance has been identified as a barrier to PSISS success.   The research first locates the concerns that governance, and in particular arrangements for governing PSISS, is contributing to PSISS failure in the academic and practice literatures on PSISS governance. Our current knowledge of PSISS governance is principally informed by literature from three domains: management, public administration and information systems. These domains, to an extent, exist in silos with unique traditions, perspectives and knowledge claims. As a result, how it informs the governance of PSISS could be at best unhelpful and even confusing to practitioners. This state of knowledge is not assisted by “how to govern” guides that obscure their different theoretical origins and do not appear to address the complexity of PSISS governance.   Despite this apparent lack of coherent frameworks in the academic and practice literatures, practitioners are expected to use this literature to develop governance arrangements and perform effective PSISS governance. This lack of coherence led me to ask my first research question: How do practitioners perceive PSISS governance in practice?   Exploring how PSISS governance occurs in practice through the lived experience of PSISS governance practitioners led me to select grounded theory as an appropriate methodology and research design to examine 20 years of governance practice for an electronic identity (E-ID) PSISS in New Zealand. My grounded theory of practice enabled construction of a public sector governance model to explore vertical and collaborative governance arrangements through three perspectives: system strategy, delivery and assurance. The model has been extended to provide a system-wide public sector governance lens, which was used to reflexively explore current academic literature and seven practitioner informed critical public sector governance issues to answer my refined secondary research question: How have governance arrangements addressed critical issues in public sector governance?</p>

How Policy Rules Shape the Structure and Performance of Collaborative Governance Arrangements

2015 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saba N. Siddiki ◽  
Julia L. Carboni ◽  
Chris Koski ◽  
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Policy Rules ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Governance Arrangements

scholarly journals Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 176-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Westerink ◽  
Roel Jongeneel ◽  
Nico Polman ◽  
Katrin Prager ◽  
Jeremy Franks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Representation in Collaborative Governance: A Case Study of a Food Policy Council

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 359-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Koski ◽  
Saba Siddiki ◽  
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq ◽  
Julia Carboni
Keyword(s):  
Food Policy ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
Substantive Representation ◽  
Governance Arrangement ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
Food Policy Council ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Representation is a hallmark of democratic governance. Widely studied within traditional modes of governance, representation is less studied in alternative governance settings, such as collaborative governance arrangements. Collaborative governance arrangements are specifically designed to encourage inclusion and participation among a diverse array of stakeholders in some part of the policy process. Our research contrasts different forms of representation observed in a collaborative governance arrangement and identifies factors contributing to observed patterns in representation therein. We analyze descriptive representation (i.e., “representation in form”) or substantive representation (i.e., “representation in practice”) and look for inconsistencies between them. Our case study is a regional food policy council located in the Western United States. Among our findings is that discrepancies between descriptive and substantive representation can be explained by shared goals, local norms, organizational structure, and heterogeneity in member capacity. We conclude our article with a discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of this research.

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