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Collaborative Governance

Booker, David E. “Collaborative Governance Practices and Democracy” ''National Civic Review''. 93. 4 (2004): 32-46. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.

“Collaborative Governance Practices and Democracy” focuses on the shift towards a collaborative government and away from more traditional government. Throughout this article David E. Booker writes about a four-step process of collaborative government giving good examples of each. Booker also discuses some of the things that interfere with collaborative government and suggest that collaboration isn’t always the best in every situation. This resource directly ties into the Wikipedia article that discusses collaborative governance, because it provides good examples within the text as well as more information overall as to what collaborative governance actually is. This article also provides steps to follow when practicing collaborative governance.

Bradley, Quintin. “A ‘Performative’ Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance” Space and Polity. 16.2. (2012): 215-232. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.

“A ‘Performative’ Social Movement: The Emergence of Collective Contentions within Collaborative Governance” focuses on study done to evaluate tenants that follow a more collaborative processes. Quentin Bradley talks about the overall social movement that leans more towards collaboration. Throughout the study there are different factors at play with different results but is shown by the end that collaborative governance has sparked a new meaning of working together for the best possible out come. This study will be useful to the Wikipedia article because it gives another good example of the affect collaborative governance is having on society and why there is a push in that direction. Allowing the linking of businesses and people like never before which is seen as a benefit as discussed in the article.

Roy, Parama. “Collaborative Planning – A Neoliberal Strategy? A Study of the Atlanta BeltLine” Elsevier 43.10 (2014): 59-68. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.

Parama Roy provides a good example of what neoliberal strategy is all while tying it together with collaborative planning in “Collaborative Planning – A Neoliberal Strategy? A Study of the Atlanta BeltLine.” He breaks down the process of collaborative planning and neoliberal strategy when talking about BeltLine, which was one of the country’s biggest public-private partnership-based urban projects. When discussing all that went into the BeltLine project he not only discusses the pros to the project, Roy shines light in the problems that arose. This article ties into the Wikipedia project related to collaborative governance because the article gives background around on the time that collaboration began to catch on in government. It also displays a real life example that will be beneficial to use when discussing collaborative governance.

Wang, Ping. “Government intervention and the empowerment process: Citizen involvement in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo” Journal of Public Affairs 14.2 (2014): 130-141. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.

In “Government intervention and the empowerment process: Citizen involvement in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo” the main topic at hand is the benefits of citizen involvement in governmental projects which worked to give citizens a greater say in what the government was doing. Ping Wang focuses on empowering the citizens to be engaged in developing social projects as well. This article will be beneficial to the collaborative governance article on Wikipedia because it focuses on the involvement of people not just corporate collaboration. Giving good insight into the importance of citizen’s involvement will be key in editing the Wikipedia page.

Wilson, Christopher and Gilles Paquet. “Collaborative Co-Governance as Inquiring Systems” Optimum Online 41.2 (2011): 1-1. EBSCO. Web. 14 Oct. 2015.

Gilles Paquet and Christopher Wilson discuss the importance of shifting to more collaborative governance in “Collaborative Co-Governance as Inquiring Systems.” They add to the discussion to move towards a more collaborative system by breaking down a few of the handicaps that put a hold on the transition to a fully collaborative government. They also layout steps that need to be followed in order for a more collaborative system to become successful by making and adapting the idea of collaboration. This short article gives good explanation as to what is causing set backs in collaborative governance which will be useful to add to the Wikipedia article. The authors were also very straight forward with what needs to be done and what is getting in the way of collaboration which is another beneficial thing to include in the article in hopes to make what collaborative governance is more clear to the readers.