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Collaborative Governance Venues: Dynamic Forums or Stagnant Bodies?
Abstract: Collaborative governance venues are often treated as stable institutional arrangements, yet they are inherently dynamic organizations that evolve as participants and policy priorities change. Drawing on longitudinal studies of environmental justice councils, watershed collaborations, and other collaborative governance arrangements, this talk examines how governance venues change over time through changes in stakeholder participation, conflict, and implementation. By exploring these conditions, I argue that collaborative venues should be understood as evolving and dynamic systems.
Graham Ambrose is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at North Carolina State University. His research uses a policy process lens to examine (1) representation in collaborative forums, particularly how diverse participation shapes collaborative processes, and (2) the evolution of policy design. His agenda centers on (1) assessing core assumptions of collaborative governance by measuring concepts such as representation, participation, institutional evolution, and interpersonal conflict, and (2) applying advanced computational and network methods to analyze patterns of policy evolution grounded in policy process theory. His research has focused on local food and environmental governance.
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