Evaluating Conflict, Interest Advancement, and Representation in Collaborative Governance
Analyzes links between conflict dynamics, who advances which interests, and how representation manifests across actors and meetings in collaborative settings.
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.
Presents longitudinal evidence connecting structure, participation processes, and functional outputs in environmental collaboratives, with implications for collaborative governance design.