Implementing and Designing Interactive Governance Arenas: A Top-Down Governance Perspective

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  • Andreas Hagedorn Krogh Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v21i3.11569

Keywords:

Implementation, Institutional design, Mandated governance areas, Interactive governance, Cross-sector collaboration

Abstract

Mandating interactive governance arenas presents itself as an appealing strategy for deter- mined public policy-makers at the frontier of New Public Governance. However, it also confronts researchers and practitioners with a new set of policy execution problems which prompts re-examination of one of the oldest research questions in public administration research: how and why are the high hopes of central policy-makers (not) translated into practice? Through combining insights from the public policy implementation literature, network governance literature and theories of multi-actor institutional design, the article develops a theoretical perspective for studying top-down implementation of interactive governance arenas. The developed perspective enables researchers and practitioners to identify a number of critical junctions in the implementation process with important impli- cations for the final design of the interactive arenas. A longitudinal case-analysis of the implementation of ten Local Crime Prevention Councils in one of twelve Danish police districts is conducted to demonstrate how the perspective may be deployed in empirical studies.

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Author Biography

Andreas Hagedorn Krogh, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University

Andreas Hagedorn Krogh is PhD Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Ros- kilde University. His dissertation research focuses on new public governance, network management, and collaborative leadership in and around the prevention of crime. He has previously published on collaborative governance, public innovation, and gang prevention partnerships.

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Published

2017-09-15

How to Cite

Hagedorn Krogh, A. (2017). Implementing and Designing Interactive Governance Arenas: A Top-Down Governance Perspective. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 21(3), 63–84. https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v21i3.11569

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