Collaborative Forms Of Governance Research Articles

Are small towns a battleground for migration governance? Negotiating refugee integration in small towns in the Netherlands

ABSTRACT A surge in refugee arrivals post-2015 challenged small localities across Europe to respond to ‘refugee integration’ locally. Existing literature focuses little on governance dynamics in small localities, particularly regarding actors’ roles and relations. Based on fieldwork in four Dutch localities, we analyse the involvement of different actor types and explore if/how they develop collaborative relations. We show that small town governments engage in different forms of collaborative governance, from consolidated actor networks and intensive collaboration between local governments and CSOs to fragmented networks with more passive governments. However, we also find conflicts among actors due to power asymmetries and diverging interests and values. We identify several factors shaping interaction patterns, including localities’ size, political orientation, political leadership, residents’ attitudes and municipal decision-making. Despite outsourcing tasks, local governments remain pivotal in integration governance, giving them a crucial role in creating inclusive, participatory spaces, preventing actors’ alienation and designing efficient policy responses.

Research on the Governance form Mechanism of Platform Enterprise Monopoly Behavior Based on Evolutionary Game Theory

Abstract Platform enterprises, which aggregate numerous and scattered resources, connect multiple interdependent parties and facilitate interactions and transactions, also confront significant monopoly market challenges. These issues constrain the platform economy’s healthy development and severely disrupt the normal market order. This paper constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model comprising the government, platform enterprises, and users, to investigate the governance mechanisms of monopoly behavior in platform enterprises and employs Matlab for numerical simulation. The results indicate that government rewards, additional profits, monopoly penalties, and user collaboration positively impact the evolution of platform enterprise strategies toward non-monopolistic practices. Together, these four mechanisms constitute the governance mechanism for monopoly behavior in platform enterprises. Specifically, providing honorary rewards for non-monopolistic behavior in platform enterprises over a certain period is essential, as it represents an effective means for the government to encourage innovative development in internet platform enterprises. The profit mechanism is the main driving force behind platform enterprises adopting monopolistic strategies and facilitating their survival and development. To a certain extent, the penalty mechanism can suppress monopolistic behaviors in platform enterprises, but it cannot fundamentally eliminate them. Instead, this mechanism accelerates the evolution of platform enterprises towards non-monopolistic behaviors, marking it as a positive governance tool. The user collaboration mechanism, a form of collaborative governance, serves as a beneficial complement to the reward, penalty, and profit mechanisms. This is because users primarily engage with platforms as consumers, legally entitled to services, and their regulatory role constitutes only a part of their responsibilities, not the main economic activity on digital platforms.

Co-creating sustainability performance accounts in cities via tinkering and bricolage

PurposeExisting performance assessment frameworks, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), struggle to incorporate diverse voices and representations of heterogeneous contexts. Cities, in particular, present a challenging context for sustainability performance assessment as they pursue new forms of governance based on the multiplicity of actors and inter-organisational collaboration. This study explores how sustainability performance accounts are created at the urban level within collaborative forms of governance and amidst the plethora of available devices for performance assessment.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a case study approach. Qualitative methods are mobilised to study a large European project focused on the urban transition to a circular economy in six participating cities. The construction of sustainability performance accounts is studied via the Actor-Network Theory lens.FindingsThe study highlights that when it comes to sustainability assessment in city initiatives, existing performance assessment devices are adapted and modified to fit local needs and other sources of performance information are spontaneously mobilised to address the different dimensions of sustainability.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the public sector accounting literature by explaining the process of modifying existing devices for performance assessment to allow for the co-creation of accounts and by illuminating the spontaneous way in which performance information is generated and combined.

Kemitraan Pemerintah Swasta dalam Penerapan Peraturan Daerah Kota Pekanbaru Nomor 08 Tahun 2014 tentang Sampah

This article discusses the concept of collaborative governance in the implementation of Pekanbaru City Regional Regulation Number 08 of 2014 concerning Waste. The waste problem in Pekanbaru City is a public problem faced by local governments, especially Pekanbaru City. The research method used is literature study by reading and exploring various documentation that discusses the main issues and concepts in this study. The results of the study show that the Public Private Partnership (PPP) pattern is a form of collaborative governance in waste management through the implementation of Pekanbaru City Regional Regulation Number 08 of 2014 concerning Waste. In the provision of public services through the PPP pattern, there are four aspects to consider in the provision of public services, namely (a) the potential aspect of the implementation of the PPP, (b) the aspect of the potential obstacles to the PPP scheme, (c) the aspect of analyzing the benefits and costs of the PPP pattern, and the aspect of the private sector's interest in the provision public service.

TREND IN CHILD VIOLENCE IN INDONESIA AND GOVERNANCE

This article aims to know the trend of violence against children in Indonesia and the steps the Indonesian government to get over it with the use of approach analysis of public policy and collaborative governance. Study this uses a qualitative approach. Data is collected from Dimensions, consisting of 437 articles from journals, national and international, books support, and newsletters. Collected data was then processed using the applications VosViewer and Nvivo 20, both used to reveal moderate issues and trends about a violent children. Analysis results disclose that the government has made policy through the Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2014 concerning the protection of children and the Peraturan Menteri Agama Nomor 73 Tahun 2022 concerning handling through socialization, learning, strengthening governance, strengthening culture and activities, other following need. And prevention in the form of reporting, protection, assistance, prosecution, and recovery of victims. Whereas the protection of the children applied with facilities for children and productive activities to fulfill children's education rights. The government also supervises assurance fulfillment suitable base and finishes related issues with victims of violence physique as well as mental and violation rule applicable law. The form of collaborative governance has also been done government about City/ District Decent Son throughout regions in Indonesia and the National Commission of the Children and Women Protection in overcoming problem hardness and fulfillment right children in Indonesia.

The Galapagos small-scale fishing sector collaborative governance network: Structure, features and insights to bolster its adaptive capacity

Collaborative forms of governance have a key role in building adaptive capacity in small-scale fishery systems. However, governance systems’ structures and features are usually ignored, reducing opportunities to improve collaboration among multiple actors to cope with adverse drivers of change and enlarge trust in decision-making. This study used a social network analysis approach based on descriptive statistics and exponential random graph models (ERGMs) to examine specific network patterns and configurations that may bolster collaboration links and the capacity to adapt in the Galapagos small-scale fishery governance system. To this end, we evaluated the Galapagos small-scale fishery governance system to (1) identify central and bridging organizations, (2) explore the organizational links and link frequencies, and (3) test hypotheses about the governance system structure using a building block approach. Our findings suggest a cross-level and cross-sectoral interaction between various organizations in the Galapagos small-scale fishery system. We identified central and well-positioned actors and network configurations whose interactions might be fundamental to strengthening the small-scale fishing sector’s collaboration links and adaptive capacity to face future crises caused by novel pandemics, climate change or other anthropogenic and climate drivers of change.

Collaborative Governance In The Handling of Stunting Program In East Flores District

Stunting management and prevention programs generally use specific nutrition intervention approaches and sensitive nutrition interventions. Several studies have shown that interventions that are effective in reducing the prevalence of stunting are still limited, although a lot of data captures and reveals the sub-focuses on nutrition, food security and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene), PMT, multi-sectoral approaches and health promotion programs but so far this has not been enough. obtain definite information regarding the prevention and treatment of stunting. On the other hand, studies related to capacity implementation, especially those carried out by several government agencies in an integrated manner, have not shown a reduction in the prevalence of stunting. Efforts to reduce the prevalence of stunting in the form of collaborative governance are very strategic considering that the synergy (government, private sector and the community) is needed when a specific nutrition intervention approach or a nutrition-sensitive intervention is carried out. Organizationally, currently efforts to prevent and treat stunting in East Flores Regency are marked by the formation of the Task Force: Convergence, Synergy, Collaboration to Accelerate Stunting Reduction which is a Task Force (collaborative governance) consisting of bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic elements. The entire observation includes all agencies that are members of the Stunting Handling Convergence Task Force. Interviews were conducted using a structured interview list with designated OPD leaders and staff; interview with street level implementation. Furthermore, observations were made at the Posyandu activity location. The collected data are then categorized and analyzed according to the research objectives. The results showed that the collaborative governance model for the prevention and treatment of stunting showed significant results, namely a decrease in the number of stunting by 2% (previously it was 22% to 20%); This fact is mainly supported by the optimal performance of the Stunting Convergence Task Force.

Determinants of the Success of Cooperative Public Procurement

Governments at all levels face pressures to provide the best quality services by optimizing expenditures. Collaborative governance, which has been advanced as a tool to improve public service delivery, is widely discussed in mainstream public administration literature. However, few scholars have addressed it from the perspective of Cooperative Public Procurement (CPP). In this paper, we examine the potential determinants of CPP as we consider it a form of collaborative governance. Through the lens of transaction costs theory and prior management literature, we hypothesize that information, negotiation, enforcement costs, joint gains, and fiscal and political pressures are the determinants of collaborative governance. Using ordered logistic models, we found that governments’ engagement in cooperative public procurement mostly depends on the benefits of CPP instead of the costs. That is, governments place more weight on the benefits than the costs of collaborative arrangements when making cooperative public procurement decisions.

Social innovation and public service: A literature review of multi-actor collaborative approaches in five European countries

Governments increasingly tend to involve or rely on various societal actors to address social challenges and develop cost-effective and high-quality public services. This paper identifies the major themes of social innovation relating to this type of collaborative governance, by carrying out a conceptual analysis of the scientific and grey literature on social innovation in five European countries. Depending on the country, different emphases of social innovation are found. One theme that appears common to all countries is social entrepreneurship. This paper provides a mapping of these major themes on social innovation. It discusses the nexus of collaborative governance and social innovation by theme, and the impact that the history of the national welfare state has on social innovation initiatives and forms of collaborative governance.

Bringing political science back into public administration research

AbstractThe paper critically reviews the consequences of a bifurcation of Political Science and Public Administration. This divorce of two closely related academic fields has removed political explanations to key developments in the public service from Public Administration research and thus it tends to provide a partial view of the reality that it seeks to capture. There are several developments underway in the public sector, which underscore the political nature of public administration. These developments include the rise of administration politics; a growing emphasis on strategic management; governance‐driven democratization and administrative micro‐politics; the increasing significance of interactive and collaborative forms of governance; the rise of multilevel governance; and the development toward a more active citizenship. We find that in all of these areas, public administration research would benefit from incorporating a political science understanding of power, democracy, governance and citizenship.

Collaborative Governance in the Optimization of Tax Revenue: Case Study in Yogyakarta

Yogyakarta Regional Tax Office always has difficulty satisfying tax revenue targets year by year. For example, Yogyakarta’s DGT could not meet the revenue target in the last three years, while DGCE always exceeded the target. Reflecting on this condition, Yogyakarta Regional Tax Office needs help from other agencies in the form of collaborative governance that might help them achieve the set targets. Meanwhile, there is a lot of research on Collaborative Governance, but robust generalizations to link theory and practice are still being sought. In order to complement between theory and practice of collaboration, this study discusses the implementation of Collaborative Governance for optimizing state revenues by conducting case studies at the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT) and the Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DGCE) in Yogyakarta. The qualitative method was used with data acquisition through interviews and literature studies. Based on the results, it was found that Collaborative Governance in Yogyakarta is following the Emerson, Nabatchi, and Balogh framework (2012) since it has several system contexts and strong drivers. Resource Conditions and Socio-Economic Conditions are the system context behind the collaboration between the two agencies. Meanwhile, Leadership, Dependence, and Uncertainty are the drivers that trigger Collaborative Governance. Furthermore, by using data matching, the researcher identified the potency of tax revenue from the bonded zone that could be elaborated in Yogyakarta. Finally, we identified several obstacles and challenges to implementing Collaborative Governance in Yogyakarta and formulated practical and theoretical recommendations for them.

When Governance Theory Meets Democratic Theory: The Potential Contribution of Cocreation to Democratic Governance

Abstract Building on recent public administration research on service coproduction and cocreation, this article draws out the democratic potential of new forms of collaborative governance between the democratic state and civil society. Within democratic theory, cocreation has many similarities with the concept of deliberative mini-publics, but it goes beyond a “talk-centric” view to emphasize the active role of civil society in creative problem-solving and public innovation. The article argues that combining insights and perspectives from both democratic theory and governance theory can provide stronger foundations for a participatory democracy that complements rather than replaces representative democracy. The article concludes with an exploration of some of the legitimation challenges that democratic cocreation might face in practice.

ZARZĄDZANIE INNOWACJAMI W METROPOLII SZTOKHOLMSKIEJ

Metropolitan areas are hubs of productivity and innovation. Although innovation can happen anywhere, it is usually concentrated in heavily urbanised areas. Cities therefore play a key role in the expansion of productivity and are drivers of economic development. Benefits created by cities reach beyond their borders. The impact of such spreading from cities to smaller towns and their surrounding and neighbouring regions is considerable, as is their positive economic influence manifesting in a radius of up to 200-300 km (OECD 2015). It is therefore vital to support innovation in order to internationally promote the competitiveness of metropolitan areas, thus consequently advancing whole regions and countries. Such development necessitates inter-sectoral collaboration, first and foremost, according to the Triple Helix concept, the collaboration of business, science and public authorities. This depends upon forms of collaborative governance at a regional and local level, which can set agreed priorities and operationalise this approach. This paper sets out to identify the forms of cooperation taken in Metropolitan Stockholm to generate innovation. The methodology applied in this research uses critical secondary data analysis, mainly the subject-matter literature and documents issued by public institutions. The paper starts with an introduction illustrating the meaning of innovation in the rise of competitiveness and development in metropolises. The next part of the paper elaborates on the concept of governance as the basis for cross-sectoral collaboration, to subsequently move to the core of the thesis, devoted to the analysis of good practice in innovation networks, particularly in ICT, life science and green economy. The summary indicates the main success factors.

The role of civil society in child safety in Europe

Abstract Introduction The complexity of injury and the multi-sectoral nature of its prevention demands a whole-of-society approach. Engaging with civil society in a form of collaborative governance is central to this approach. Civil society, defined as neither state, nor market, nor family, includes organisations such as advocacy groups, charities, professional associations etc. This study looks at the role of civil society organisations in the implementation of child injury prevention interventions in Europe. Methods The method was built upon an existing approach, known as ’organigraphs’. Mintzberg and van der Heyden developed the approach to depict how organisations actually work. We further developed its practical application to explore how interventions in child safety are developed, implemented and monitored across the local, regional, national and EU levels. Professionals working in child safety in 25 European countries were asked to draw organigraphs for an intervention in one of four child injury domains: road, water, home safety or intentional injury prevention. The analysis focused on the action surrounding civil society actors, represented by the connectors leading to and from those actors. Results We received 44 organigraphs in total from 31 participants in 24 countries; nine for intentional injury prevention, nine for water safety, 12 for road safety and 14 for home safety. Civil society actors were present in the majority of Organigraphs and they played multiple and diverse roles including: ’advising’, ’funding’ and ’implementing’ child safety initiatives. Conclusions The role of civil society, described in this data set, appears to be relatively well-developed. Strong, functional and long-standing partnerships between civil society actors across policy sectors and government may lead to greater capacity to address the complexity of child injury. Key messages Effective child injury prevention requires multi-sectoral action to address its complexity. Stakeholders come from the public and private sector and from civil society. Greater engagement with civil society may represent an opportunity for countries and regions to improve their response to the challenges of injury prevention among children.

Exploring resistance in collaborative forms of governance: Meaning negotiations and counter-narratives in a case from the Danish education sector

This paper addresses resistance in studies about collaborative forms of governance. Although the literature discusses collaborative challenges, issues related to resistance are largely unexplored and mostly regarded as destructive. However, we argue for understanding resistance more dynamically – as a co-constructive aspect of collaboration. Drawing on extant resistance studies, we combine concepts of meaning negotiation and counter-narrative to examine power-resistance relations in a case study of collaborative forms of governance in the Danish education sector. The findings elucidate how resistance complicates, yet also co-constructs collaboration in governance processes; discursive struggles over meanings of collaboration and a quality model invoke power-resistance relations that destabilize a dominant narrative and enable counter-narratives, which influence future collaborative processes. Hence, we suggest understanding resistance as a constitutive feature in collaborative forms of governance, rather than a destructive obstacle. This contributes with empirical and theoretical insights into the complex role of resistance in collaboration and governance processes.

Understanding Effectiveness in its Broader Context: Assessing Case Study Methodologies for Evaluating Collaborative Conservation Governance

Collaborative forms of governance are increasingly favored in conservation and potentially offer a range of practical and outcome-based benefits. However, tools for critically assessing whether and how collaboration enhances the attainment of conservation objectives are lagging behind the enthusiasm. We use a framework that considers effectiveness in relation to capacity of key actors and institutions to achieve outcomes and respond to emergent problems, robustness over time (i.e. adapting to changes while still achieving objectives), context-specific drivers of change, and the structure of networks and institutions to assess common approaches for evaluating effectiveness. Network analysis performs well in terms of structure, while action research and the diagnostic method offer deep insights into capacity and context. Scenario planning performs well in understanding robustness and context but performs better when combined with a diagnostic. The evaluation reveals important insights for approaching and standardizing investigations of collaborative governance regimes and their effectiveness.

Third Party Certification: implementation challenges in private-social partnerships

Third party certification organizations provide opportunities for market and community/non-state actors to collaborate with minimal state involvement. This new hybrid form of collaborative governance raises questions about accountability and responsibilities of private-social partnerships and the challenges to policy implementation. Emerging market based approaches are driven by shareholder expectations as well as commitment to corporate social responsibility, whereas community engagement is increasingly centered on the questions of social license to operate. This paper argues that a community’s lack of trust of industry and/or certification organizations and assessments hinders the collaborative process. It is found that community groups can grant or withhold social license to operate, ceasing industry progress despite its commitments to corporate social responsibility policies and certified standards.

Barriers to the Developement of Collaborative Governance in Croatia


 
 This paper aims to establish whether collaborative governance may be a useful concept in Croatian local government and what barriers might prevent Croatian ULGs from developing such models. Recent research has shown that some ULGs in Croatia are more successful than others in terms of financial management and resource allocation, which may be due to better quality of civil servants working in local government and increased participation of citizens in public policy making but also to some form of collaborative governance. The second case also offers a possibility of achieving higher level of citizen satisfaction with local government on the basis of results, although this satisfaction is not necessarily linked to achieving proclaimed policy objectives or transparency and openness. In the case of e-governance we also assess the technological development of ULGs as a precondition for dynamic communication needed for collaboration. We find that in some cases the achievement of public good and community goals are due to better leadership and creating trust and in some others due to better participation in policies and involvement of citizens in common problems, such as unemployment. Barriers are detected by studying the most and least successful ULGs.
 

Nodes and networks in the governance of ecosystem-based adaptation: the case of the Bergrivier municipality, South Africa

New forms of governance that foster multi-level and collaborative action have been identified as key to climate change adaptation. Ecosystem-based adaptation is emerging as an important type of adaptation response. Despite its recognized promise, it remains a challenging task to conceptualize governance regimes for it because of the involvement of numerous actors across the landscape scale. Both multi-level and collaborative forms of governance are required to involve relevant actors in decision-making and related actions. We explore the applicability of the theory of nodal governance, in conjunction with social network theory, to provide a framework for operationalizing the concepts of multi-level and collaborative governance. We use the Bergrivier municipal area of South Africa as a case study, focusing on organizations (nodes) that have the potential to implement ecosystem-based adaptation. We show that a nodal governance focus on institutional structures, mentalities, technologies, and resources can be highly effective for understanding the factors supporting or constraining ecosystem-based adaptation. A focus on the number and strength of network connections that actors share highlights how the numerous connections between organizations constitute an important opportunity for strengthening ecosystem-based adaptation outcomes in the future. The analysis suggests that in the Bergrivier municipal area, both agricultural best practices and restoration activities are side-lined compared to other activities (e.g., land use planning) despite the importance of the agricultural sector in the Bergrivier area. We argue that a nodal governance focus, accompanied by the use of social network analysis, can be highly effective for understanding how to improve governance of adaptation at the local level.

Why Prostitution Policy (Usually) Fails and What to Do about It?

This article describes and discusses the results of two comparative studies of prostitution policy in Europe that are complementary in their design and methodology. One is a comparison of 21 countries using a most different systems design; the other an in-depth comparison of Austria and The Netherlands, using a most similar systems design. The two studies found a remarkable continuity in the inherent approach to the regulation of prostitution and its effects. Despite differences in political regime, administrative organization, and national cultures, since the middle of the 19th century, the purpose of prostitution policy has been to impose strict controls on sex workers and to a lesser extent their work sites. The effects of this approach have been disappointing: despite rhetorical claims to the contrary the control of sex workers has no discernable effect on the prevalence of prostitution in society. The effects of policies aimed at control are mostly negative in that they corrode the human and labor rights of sex workers. The article discusses several challenges to the regulation of prostitution (such as its deeply moral nature and the lack of precise and reliable data) as well a number of other important outcomes (such as the importance of local policy implementation for the effects of regulation). The article concludes with the empirically substantiated suggestion that a form of collaborative governance in which sex worker advocacy organizations participate in the design and implementation of prostitution policy offers real prospects for an effective and humane prostitution policy.