COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE IN THE UNITED STATESAND KOREA: CASES IN NEGOTIATED POLICYMAKINGAND SERVICE DELIVERY

摘要

Collaborative governance has been defined as theprocess of establishing, steering, facilitating, operating, andmonitoring cross-sectoral organizational arrangements toaddress public policy problems that cannot be easilyaddressed by a single organization or the public sectoralone (Ansell and Gash 2008). Although a worldwidephenomenon, the rise of collaborative governance indifferent countries can be attributed to different factorsdepending on specific historical and institutionalcontexts. These differences affect collaborativegoverning arrangements and their relative efficacy astools for public problem solving. Yet in the emergingliterature on collaborative governance, there have beenfew systematic efforts that compare collaborativegovernance across different nations. In this symposium,we take a step in this direction by examining experiencesin two countries, the United States and Korea.