What explains the performance of participatory governance?
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Pathways to Positive Public Administration: An International Perspective. ed. / Patrick Lucas; Tina Nabatchi; Janine O'Flynn; Paul't Hart. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. p. 165-186.
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T1 - What explains the performance of participatory governance?
AU - Jager, Nicolas W.
AU - Newig, Jens
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Patrick Lucas, Tina Nabatchi, Janine O’Flynn and Paul ‘t Hart 2024.
PY - 2024/8/9
Y1 - 2024/8/9
N2 - Participatory and collaborative forms of public decision-making have gained a firm place in public management, aiming to effectively tackle complex sustainability challenges. Going beyond established mono-dimensional evaluative yardsticks, we assess how and under which circumstances public participation leads to multi-dimensionally ‘successful’ governance outcomes, including environmental, economic and justice-related dimensions. Our data comes from an extensive meta-analysis that synthesizes insights from 300 published case studies of participatory environmental decision-making in 23 countries. We employ two-step QCA that distinguishes between distant (contextual) and proximate (process-oriented) conditions. Results indicate that reconciliatory contexts appear favorable for successful decision-making. Within these contexts, we identified three causal pathways. Together these highlight, apart from the pivotal position of the responsible authority, the role of consensus-oriented collaboration. Characterized by meaningful interaction among participants and consensual decision modes, such forms of collaboration appear as promising mechanisms to balance diverse viewpoints, ultimately leading to successful outcomes in multiple dimensions.
AB - Participatory and collaborative forms of public decision-making have gained a firm place in public management, aiming to effectively tackle complex sustainability challenges. Going beyond established mono-dimensional evaluative yardsticks, we assess how and under which circumstances public participation leads to multi-dimensionally ‘successful’ governance outcomes, including environmental, economic and justice-related dimensions. Our data comes from an extensive meta-analysis that synthesizes insights from 300 published case studies of participatory environmental decision-making in 23 countries. We employ two-step QCA that distinguishes between distant (contextual) and proximate (process-oriented) conditions. Results indicate that reconciliatory contexts appear favorable for successful decision-making. Within these contexts, we identified three causal pathways. Together these highlight, apart from the pivotal position of the responsible authority, the role of consensus-oriented collaboration. Characterized by meaningful interaction among participants and consensual decision modes, such forms of collaboration appear as promising mechanisms to balance diverse viewpoints, ultimately leading to successful outcomes in multiple dimensions.
KW - Case survey meta-analysis
KW - Causal mechanisms
KW - Collaborative governance
KW - QCA
KW - Qualitative Comparative Analysis
KW - SCAPE database
KW - Sustainability governance
KW - Sustainability Governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85217306019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4337/9781803929170.00019
DO - 10.4337/9781803929170.00019
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85217306019
SN - 9781803929163
SP - 165
EP - 186
BT - Pathways to Positive Public Administration
A2 - Lucas, Patrick
A2 - Nabatchi, Tina
A2 - O'Flynn, Janine
A2 - Hart, Paul't
PB - Edward Elgar Publishing
ER -