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Collaborative governing arrangement

Governance is a broader concept than government and also includes the roles played by the community sector and the private sector in managing and planning countries, regions and cities. Collaborative governance involves the government, community and private sectors communicating with each other and working together to achieve more than any one sector could achieve on its own. Ansell and Gash (2008) have explored the conditions required for effective collaborative governance. They say "The ultimate goal is to develop a contingency approach of collaboration that can highlight conditions under which collaborative governance will be more or less effective as an approach to policy making and public management" Collaborative governance covers both the informal and formal relationships in problem solving and decision-making. Conventional government policy processes can be embedded in wider policy processes by facilitating collaboration between the public, private and community sectors. Collaborative Governance requires three things, namely: support; leadership; and a forum. The support identifies the policy problem that needs to be fixed. The leadership gathers the sectors into a forum. Then, the members of the forum collaborate to develop policies, solutions and answers. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Collaborative governanceA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Paradoxes in collaborative governanceInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Keeping college within reachThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Collaborative Governance in Theory and PracticeCited 5,960 times
  5. Go sideways: Multistakeholder governanceA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Public participationA closely related topic

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