TY - JOUR
T1 - Collaborative Governance at Scale
T2 - Examining the Regimes, Platforms, and System in the State of Oregon
AU - Yoon, Nara
AU - Fields, Katie
AU - Cochran, Bobby
AU - Nabatchi, Tina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Rebecca McLain, Qasim Mehdi, Jiho Kim, and Brian Ohl for their comments on previous versions of the manuscript. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - This article takes a first step toward analyzing the characteristics of a cross-policy, state-wide collaborative system. Specifically, using data from the Atlas of Collaboration project, we offer a big-picture analysis of how over 200 externally directed collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) are operationalized in a state-level collaborative system consisting of 13 collaborative platforms operating across five policy areas (economic development, education, health, natural resources, public safety) in Oregon. We focus on three attributes—geographic scope, collaborative size, and collaborative characteristics—aggregated at the system level across CGRs, as well as across collaborative platforms and policy areas. The descriptive findings reveal that collaborative efforts are geographically dispersed across the state, involve thousands of participants representing organizations from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and vary across multiple characteristics, such as organizational form, lead organization, funding model, structural roles, staffing, and extent of face-to-face dialogue. These findings lay the groundwork for future theoretical development and empirical research.
AB - This article takes a first step toward analyzing the characteristics of a cross-policy, state-wide collaborative system. Specifically, using data from the Atlas of Collaboration project, we offer a big-picture analysis of how over 200 externally directed collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) are operationalized in a state-level collaborative system consisting of 13 collaborative platforms operating across five policy areas (economic development, education, health, natural resources, public safety) in Oregon. We focus on three attributes—geographic scope, collaborative size, and collaborative characteristics—aggregated at the system level across CGRs, as well as across collaborative platforms and policy areas. The descriptive findings reveal that collaborative efforts are geographically dispersed across the state, involve thousands of participants representing organizations from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and vary across multiple characteristics, such as organizational form, lead organization, funding model, structural roles, staffing, and extent of face-to-face dialogue. These findings lay the groundwork for future theoretical development and empirical research.
KW - collaborative governance
KW - collaborative governance regimes
KW - collaborative platforms
KW - collaborative system
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U2 - 10.1177/02750740221104521
DO - 10.1177/02750740221104521
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131524664
SN - 0275-0740
VL - 52
SP - 439
EP - 456
JO - American Review of Public Administration
JF - American Review of Public Administration
IS - 6
ER -