Thinking Harder About Outcomes for Collaborative Governance Arrangements

In recent years, a growing number of scholars have urged greater intellectual effort regarding the outcomes, or impacts, being produced, or not produced by collaborative governance arrangements. Some progress has been made with “process” and “social” outcomes, outcomes affecting systemic collaborati...

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Published in:American review of public administration 2010-09, Vol.40 (5), p.546-567
Main Authors: Rogers, Ellen, Weber, Edward P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Compliance
Governance
Government agencies
Intellectuals
Positioning
Public administration
Refining
Studies
Technology transfer
Western States
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Summary:In recent years, a growing number of scholars have urged greater intellectual effort regarding the outcomes, or impacts, being produced, or not produced by collaborative governance arrangements. Some progress has been made with “process” and “social” outcomes, outcomes affecting systemic collaborative capacity, the identification of second- and third-order consequences, and in refining approaches to incorporating and measuring real world environmental improvements. But what about other creative, important, and potentially useful governance outcomes that may well be unique to collaborative governance arrangements? Are we measuring all of the important things? We put this hypothesis to the test by examining four successful cases of collaborative governance in four Western states. The research, by discovering and developing three new types of governance outcomes—enhancing agency resources, developing and transferring technology, and going beyond compliance—suggests that our current frameworks for thinking about and measuring outcomes produced by collaborative governance arrangements are necessarily incomplete.
ISSN:0275-0740
1552-3357
DOI:10.1177/0275074009359024