Collaborative Governace

Question 1

What may bring about complexity in the policy process

Answer 1

Limited finances
Competing ideas and tensions
Time
Easy to form public opinion with social media
Not responding well to principles of democratic capitalism
Does policy undermine the principle of a free market
Can’t make policy fast enough
Digital world- public opinion can be shaped
Policy is not responsive enough

Question 2

Where is policy nowadays

Answer 2

Moved away from traditional policy making at Westminster of linear process that supposedly was rational but became rather irrational
If policy makers don’t understand the problem why don’t they bring different stakeholders in
Implementation stands more of a chance if relevant stakeholders are brought in form the beginning

Question 3

What are the different kinds of interest groups

Answer 3

Insider groups
Ascribed a legitimate status by governments and are accordingly involved in decision making

Outsider groups
Unable to achieve a favourable position and do not become engaged

Question 4

What questions are raised with the pluralistic landscape

Answer 4

Where is the transparency
Legitimacy
Accountability

Question 5

What drives collaborative governance

Answer 5

Response to the failures of downstream inplementation

Formal process
Avoids high cost
Expands democratic participation
Restores rationality

Question 6

What is pluralism and the policy marketplace

Answer 6

Non governmental groups use their resources to exert influence
All stakeholder groups have an equal chance to have their say
Organisations that compromise the market enter the policy making domain
All stakeholders have an equal chance to make their say

Question 7

What are the benefits of collaborative governance

Answer 7

Sells to avoid the high cost of adversarial decision making
Expand democratic participation
Restore rationality
Real risk that approaches of CG are a tokenistic venture, has the tbf already made up its mind?
Shifting towards a more networked society

Question 8

What are stakeholder interactions

Answer 8

Policy networks consist of a variety of actors who depend on each other to achieve desired public outcomes

• complexities arise because of the stakeholders involved
• depend on each other to get listened to
• potential bias in outcome
• slow decision making process
• work through consultation to get agreement

Question 9

What are some key points regarding doing CG

Answer 9

Deliberation is necessary to unlock collaborative advantage
Get a decision making process that encapsulates the views and needs of a wide range of stakeholders
Principled engagement
Potential dark side to deliberation

Question 10

What is the key challenge to CG

Answer 10

Can’t involve all organisations and business fields

Question 11

What is a framework for CG

Answer 11

Discovery- shared issue understanding
Definition- stakeholder work together to define objective
Deliberation- candid + reasoned communication
Determination- quality of decisions made

Stakeholders are not often on the same page when brought together
Facilitation of CG

Question 12

Tell me about the Heathrow expansion

Answer 12

10 week public consultation
2 parts to consultation
First relating to physical changes
Second relating to potential principles that could be applied when designing the new airspace

Our consultations are vital to help ensure everyone shared in the beliefs of Heathrow’s expansion

Stakeholders given a brochures that details all options and is easy to understand

Question 13

What is the cg process at Heathrow

Answer 13

Early engagement 
Consultation 1 
Ongoing engagement 
Consultation 2 
Further engagement

Question 14

What do ansell and gash say about CG

Answer 14

Brings together multiple stakeholders in common forums to engage in consensus orientated decision making

A governing arrangement where one or more public agencies directly engage non state stakeholders in collective decision making process that is final, consensus orientated and deliberative and that aims to make it implement public policy or mange public programmes or assets

Question 15

What are the starting conditions for CG outlined by ansell and gash can eithe facilitate or discourage cooperation

Answer 15

Power and resource imbalances
Incentives to participate
Prehistory of antagonism and cooperation we

Question 16

What is the importance of facilitative leadership

Answer 16

Critical ingredient for bringing parties to the table
Critical of setting and maintaining clear ground rules, building trust, facilitator in dialogue and exploring mutual gains

Question 17

What must collaborative leaders do?

Answer 17

Promote broad rules and active participation
Ensure broad based control and influence
Facilitate productive group dynamics
Extend the scope of the process

Question 18

What are the elements of the collaborative process that ansell and gash identify

Answer 18

Face to face dialogue 
Trust building 
Commitment to the process 
Shared understanding 
Intermediate outcomes

Question 19

What does crompton (2017) say about deliberative priority setting

Answer 19

Aims to combine the social insight of stakeholders with the technical evidence through structured deliberation
Deliberation may have a dark side
Good facilitation is key to managing power plays

Question 20

What are the 2 factors facilitators of DPS need to address

Answer 20

Data must be communicated clearly so that stakeholders understand it
Asymmetries of knowledge need to be minimised

Question 21

What does crompton find about the problems associated with the deliberative priority setting of cancer pathways

Answer 21

Set up meeting
Stakeholders given little ability to question the data
Given data which they struggled to understand
Difficult to find a common language
Some stakeholders were reluctant to share views

Power and status inequalities
Poor translation of technical information
Asymmetries of knowledge together with power and status inequalities created limited deliberation

Question 22

What recommendations does crompton make

Answer 22

The facilitator should translate and disseminate data
Data should be presented to stakeholders in the simplest form possible
Facilitators need to uphold social deliberative elements of DPS

Question 23

What are the problems crompton identifies with DPS

Answer 23

Epistemological differences can complicate decision making
Power and status inequalities
Poor translation of technical data
Asymmetries of knowledge together with power and status inequalities created limited deliberation

Question 24

What donpolicy networks consist of

Answer 24

A variety of actors who all have their own goals and strategies but are dependant on each other the achieve desired public policy outcomes