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Institutional Design in Collaborative Governance

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Collaborative Governance Primer

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The multidimensional nature of complex public problems demands design mechanisms that allow for the creation of robust and sustainable solutions based on collaborative governance. Collaborative governance’s opportunity for stakeholders from public, private, nonprofit, and civic sectors to work collectively toward common goals and objectives is promising in terms of viability, and creating impactful outcomes is partly contingent on institutional design. The reality of existing and emerging collaborative governance regimes grounded on design mechanisms that emphasize inclusive representation and participation of cross-sector stakeholders emanating different entities, locales, demographics, interests, persuasions, and power dynamics is ameliorated by established protocols, rules, policies, procedures, statutes, and bylaws to enable meaningful involvement. The reality of collaborative governance, though, resembles agreement, contention, power dynamics, frustration, and delayed decisions that the institutional design fundamentals position collaborative governance toward realizing established agenda when stakeholders’ intentionality and resolve for collective action drive efforts. This chapter elucidates institutional design within collaborative governance and its criticalness in generating constructive solutions that benefit target populations and society. It also references key elements in the institutional design with a model highlighting the conceptual underpinnings. It integrates an example of design mechanisms’ impact on addressing a complex health problem and the opportunity for related intervention strategies as a channel to pragmatic solutions as emblematic of the benefits of engagement protocols in collaborative governance.

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Agbodzakey, J. (2024). Institutional Design in Collaborative Governance. In: Collaborative Governance Primer. SpringerBriefs in Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57373-6_3

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