How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?

Chris Ansell, Jacob Torfing, Ansell, Chris, Torfing, Jacob, Chris Ansell, Jacob Torfing

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781447340577
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Scale is an overlooked issue in the research on interactive governance. This book takes up the important task of investigating the scalar dimensions of collaborative governance in networks, partnerships, and other interactive arenas and explores the challenges of operating at a single scale, across or at multiple scales and of moving between scales.

First published as a special issue of Policy & Politics, the volume explores the role of scale and scaling in a wide range of policy areas, including employment policy, water management, transportation planning, public health, university governance, artistic markets, child welfare and humanitarian relief. Cases are drawn from Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America and span all levels from local to global. Together, the theoretical framework and the empirical case studies sensitize us to the tensions that arise between scales of governance and to the challenges of shifting from one scale of governance to another.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• CHAPTER ONE: How does collaborative governance scale?
• CHAPTER TWO: Governing EU employment policy: does collaborative governance scale up?
• CHAPTER THREE: Bridging the hierarchical and collaborative divide: the role of network managers in scaling up a network approach to water governance in California
• CHAPTER FOUR: Scale and intensity of collaboration as determinants of performance management gaps in polycentric governance networks: evidence from a national survey of metropolitan planning organisations
• CHAPTER FIVE: When collaborative governance scales up: lessons from global public health about compound collaboration
• CHAPTER SIX: The ‘Milky Way’ of intermediary organisations: a transnational field of university governance
• CHAPTER SEVEN: Scaling up networks for starving artists
• CHAPTER EIGHT: Shifts in control disciplines and rescaling as a response to network governance failure: the BCJ case, Brazil
• CHAPTER NINE: Institutional embeddedness and the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation: the case of a Hong Kong-based international NGO