Siddiki Saba, Ambrose Graham
Syracuse University, 426 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY, 13244, USA.
Environ Manage. 2023 Mar;71(3):620-640. doi: 10.1007/s00267-022-01688-7. Epub 2022 Aug 4.
Collaborative governance involves convening of government and non-government actors in policy formulation and implementation. Motivating collaborative governance is the expectation that engagement of diverse arrays of stakeholders in the public policy process allows policymakers and administrators to draw on the expertise, resources, and perspectives of these stakeholders to develop more contextually appropriate and effective policies. Since collaborative governance is fundamentally premised on the representation of diverse stakeholders in collaborative processes, assessing the extent to which representation is actualized is paramount. This paper adds to recent scholarship that examines representation dynamics in collaborative governance arrangements, focusing specifically on: (i) how diverse stakeholders included in collaborative governance arrangements are descriptively and substantively represented; (ii) how substantively represented stakeholders are coordinating on informational and relationship building activities; (iii) how representation and coordination dynamics change over time; and (iv) the extent to which representation and coordination dynamics are indicative of collaboration life cycle stage. Additionally, in responding to this latter aim, the paper presents a novel approach for measuring life cycle stages. The paper reports on a comparative case study of environmental justice councils, which are collaborative governance arrangements convened by states to assist in the design and implementation of policies aimed at reducing environmental harms within low income and minority populated communities.
协作治理涉及政府和非政府行为体在政策制定和实施过程中的召集。推动协作治理的动力在于，期望各类利益相关者参与公共政策过程，能使政策制定者和管理者利用这些利益相关者的专业知识、资源和观点，制定出更符合实际情况且有效的政策。由于协作治理从根本上基于协作过程中不同利益相关者的代表性，评估代表性的实现程度至关重要。本文补充了近期研究协作治理安排中代表性动态的学术成果，具体关注以下几点：（一）协作治理安排中纳入的不同利益相关者在描述性和实质性方面是如何得到代表的；（二）得到实质性代表的利益相关者在信息和关系建设活动上是如何进行协调的；（三）代表性和协调动态如何随时间变化；（四）代表性和协调动态在多大程度上表明了协作生命周期阶段。此外，为回应后一个目标，本文提出了一种衡量生命周期阶段的新方法。本文报告了一项关于环境正义委员会的比较案例研究，这些委员会是各州召集的协作治理安排，旨在协助设计和实施旨在减少低收入和少数族裔聚居社区环境危害的政策。
