How Does Collaborative Governance Scale?: (New Perspectives in Policy and Politics)

The volume explores the role of scale and scaling in collaborative governance focusing on 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.

Table of Contents:
How does collaborative governance scale? ~ Chris Ansell and Jacob Torfing Governing EU employment policy: does collaborative governance scale up? ~ Eva Sørensen, Peter Triantafillou and Bodil Damgaard Bridging the hierarchical and collaborative divide: the role of network managers in scaling up a network approach to water governance in California ~ Esther Conrad Scale and intensity of collaboration as determinants of performance management gaps in polycentric governance networks: evidence from a national survey of metropolitan planning organisations ~ Asim Zia, Christopher Koliba, Jack Meek and Anna Schulz When collaborative governance scales up: lessons from global public health about compound collaboration ~ Chris Ansell; The 'Milky Way' of intermediary organisations: a transnational field of university governance ~ Kerstin Sahlin, Filip Wijkström, Lisa Dellmuth, Torbjörn Einarsson amd Achim Oberg Scaling up networks for starving artists ~ Ben Farr-Wharton and Robyn Keast Shifts in control disciplines and rescaling as a response to network governance failure: the BCJ case, Brazil ~ Charles Kirschbaum Institutional embeddedness and the scaling-up of collaboration and social innovation: the case of a Hong Kong-based international NGO ~ Eliza WY Lee and Juan Manuel Restrepo

About the Author :
Professor Chris Ansell works in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. His fields of interest include public policy, public administration, governance, and organization theory, with a geographical focus on Europe. His current research focuses on the collaboration of public and private institutions to manage risks and to govern unruly public problems. Professor Jacob Torfing, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. His research interests include changing forms of governance, public sector reforms, political leadership and the barriers and drivers of collaborative innovation.

Review :
"This volume offers an unparalleled examination of the issues of scale and scaling in collaborative governance. The theoretical framework and case study illustrations provide invaluable insights to both scholars and practitioners. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to better understand and better engage in effective collaborative problem-solving." Tina Nabatchi, Associate Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University