Definition of Collaborative Governance
The concept of Collaborative Governance describes a type of governance characterized by the nonhierarchical engagement of public, private, state and non-state, government and nongovernmental, as well as collective and individual actors in the decision-making and policy-making process. Notably, governance indicates a mode of governing whereby power is not exclusively held by top-down state institutions but is decentralized and redistributed to non-state and/or private actors (for a definition of governance, see inter alia Pierre and Peters 2000; Rhodes 1997). Therefore, the term governance associated with the adjective collaborative further stresses the role of non-state actors in decisional processes through cooperative linkages between public decision-makers and the civil society. In particular, Collaborative Governance, broadly...
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Mocca, E. (2020). Collaborative Governance: Opening the Doors of Decision-Making. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71067-9_23-1
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