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collaborative governance
Key Features of Cross-Agency Collaborative Mechanisms
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 - 14:20
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 14:15
GAO’s latest study on collaborative governance is based on an analysis of more than 300 past GAO reports covering issues such as homeland security, agriculture, and health, as well as a series of interviews with experts on the topic.
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Collaborating in a Hierarchical World
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 - 11:24
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 11:20
Drs. Rosemary O’Leary and Nidhi Vij presented a paper at the recent annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration, “Collaborative Public Management: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?” They surveyed the literature (so you wouldn’t have to) to find the most important issues facing the field, at least from the perspective of academia. They identified ten that kept surfacing in the literature:
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JKamensky
I enjoyed your article on Collaborating in a Hierarchical World.
I've researched two real-life case studies for those interested in understanding the dynamics of collaborative governance (from my POV) and a strategic approach to facilitating policy change. This peer-reviewed paper is available online in the Journal Interface - download the PDF at http://www.interfacejournal.net/2011/05/interface-volume-3-issue-1-repre... (Sranko, G., Collaborative governance and a strategic approach to facilitating change).
Kind regards, George Sranko
Steve Richardson
John, the points you summarized struck me as very helpful observations, so I was surprised by your parting shot at their concern with terminology. I read the paper and did not change my mind. O'Leary and Vij offer a thoughtful survey of the literature and - as academics virtually always do - suggest topics for further research. Practitioners might actually appreciate their contribution to knowledge of what collaborative governance entails. I think anyone seriously interested in the subject is capable of learning from their observations without being offended or discouraged by their finding that scholars have not yet established a rich, well-defined field of study in this area.
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Measuring Performance in Networks
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011 - 12:16
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 12:14
The IBM Center has sponsored a series of reports in different policy arenas over the past decade that look at the creation and use of collaborative networks to get results. Reports exploring collaborative networks in emergency management, watershed management,
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Government Reform: Collaborative Perspective
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 - 17:21
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There are different kinds of networks ranging from just cooperating and sharing information (cooperative network) to just coordinating existing efforts (coordinative networks) to finding new innovative solutions based on changing the systems of the participants involved (collaborative networks). These recommendations would work for cooperating and coordinating networks, but for collaborative networks, making it work involves building new relationships and changing the behavior of the participants. They therefore require a new type of leadership (called a process catalyst) and what is referred to as strategic leveraging. The key is that the focus needs to be on building new relationships first and achieving goals second. It requires the ability to recognize and mold the relationships in order to achieve the synergies that can arise through these types of networks.
More on this can be found in the work of Keast and Mandell.