Antecedents of Collaboration in Public Participation Strategies: Reconciling Relationships, Rational

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Antecedents of Collaboration in Public
Participation Strategies Reconciling
Relationships, Rationales and Roles

• Maja Husar Holmes
• September 28, 2006

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Historical Evolution of Public Participation
Emphases
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Key Challenges in Managing Public Participation

• Identifying relationships
• With the public at large
• With other governmental and quasi-governmental
  agencies
• Articulating rationales
• Normative, Instrumental, and Substantive
• Defining roles
• Expert, Conveners, Negotiators, ect.

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Additional Realities in Managing Public
Participation

• Limited financial and staff resources
• Co-sponsorship mandates for public projects
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• Greater collaboration in
• managing public participation

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Antecedents of Collaborative Arrangements

• Capacity of non-federal agencies
• Staff resources
• Stakeholder network
• Competition among non-federal agencies
• Overlapping turfs
• Conflicting missions

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Typology of Collaborative Roles Based on
Competition and Capacity of Non-Federal Agencies
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Implications for Public Managers

• Mandates alone do not spark collaboration.
• Identifying the capacity and competition among
  government agencies is key to thinking about
  possible collaborative arrangements.
• Collaborative arrangements, like public
  participation, follow a continuum rather than a
  hierarchy.