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Define Collaborative Governance Broadly

Why Is This Idea Important?: The Open Government Directive should explicitly recognize and encourage public and stakeholder involvement and the mediation of disputes (i.e. the midstream and downstream portions of the spectrum). The Directive should also recognize and build on the rich and long experience with a large variety of public engagement and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs in the federal sector.

The Open Government Directive should define collaboration in governance broadly. Collaborative governance includes public involvement or civic engagement, collaboration with stakeholder groups, collaborative public management, and dispute resolution with citizens and stakeholders. It can occur upsteam in policy-making, midstream in policy implementation, and downstream in policy enforcement.

Submitted by Lisa Blomgren Bingham 2 years ago

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  1. Linda Blong said:

    This is an important and practical step in actually embedding participatory and transparent processes throughout government. It also suggests to me, the value of the development of a framework for looking at how the various forms of collaborative governance, as broadly defined, contribute differently to good policy and healthy democracy. Such a framework and the knowledge base that should be accumulated around it would be central to the further articulation and wise application of this appropriately broad definition. Thank you for this work Lisa.

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