Collaborative Governance

Press release highlights a ‘mixed services transition approach’ that improves implementation.

Identifies factors associated with successful transitions from planning to implementation in watershed collaborations and maps developmental trajectories over time.

This course introduces the foundations of the public policy process, emphasizing policy design, implementation, and evaluation through applied projects, team-based exercises, and critical thinking development.

Measures the extent and severity of conflict, links actor attributes to conflict in two-way communication, and examines sectoral differences and activity-level variation across time.

Analyzes links between conflict dynamics, who advances which interests, and how representation manifests across actors and meetings in collaborative settings.

Tests four theory-driven hypotheses about sustained stakeholder participation in an environmental justice council and identifies interpersonal interactions and policy wins as key contributors.

Finds distinct sectoral discussion patterns; retreat meetings increase discussion for all sectors; and meeting-level factors associate differently with representation across sectors.

Builds an original longitudinal dataset from meeting minutes to analyze who participates, who is represented in two-way communications, and how conflict dynamics evolve across councils and time.

Tracks shifts in who participates and how actors coordinate in collaborative governance bodies focused on environmental justice.

Analyzes the design of municipal food policy councils in the U.S., detailing membership, contextual drivers, topical foci, and mandated activities to inform collaborative governance practice.

Presents longitudinal evidence connecting structure, participation processes, and functional outputs in environmental collaboratives, with implications for collaborative governance design.