collaborative governance

Legitimacy in and out: Why local governments collaborate with researchers and how citizens respond

This paper combines a field experiment with municipal officials and a survey experiment with citizens to examine whether input and output legitimacy motivate local governments to collaborate with researchers and whether such collaboration increases citizens’ trust in government.

A “watershed” moment for collaboration: The impacts of legislation and network governance on environmental outcomes

Public Administration Review

This paper combines the regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design and longitudinal analysis to examine the impacts of state legislation and the subsequent collaborative projects on water quality.

Is causal inference “observable” in public administration? A systemtic review

Reviewing 5,246 public administration articles from 2016 to 2025, we document how often and how well scholars use observational causal inference methods and offer propositions for using them to advance theory.

Partisan collaboration in policy adoption: An experimental study with local government officials

Policy Studies Journal

This paper uses a conjoint experiment involving U.S. municipal officials to test the co-partisanship effect on policy collaboration.

All hands on deck: The role of collaborative platforms and lead organizations in achieving environmental goals

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

This paper combines the difference-in-differences (DiD) methods and content analysis to examine the effectiveness of collaborative platforms in supporting local collaborations for natural resource management.

How and when democratic values matter: Challenging the effectiveness-centric framework in program evaluation

Public Performance & Management Review

Using a conjoint experiment, this research compare the effects of effectiveness and democratic values in predicting public program evaluation, conditioned on citizens’ trust in government.

Public trust and collaborative governance: An instrumental variable approach

Public Management Review

This research utilizes public integrity information, randomly assigned as the instrumental variable, to explore the impact of trust in government on citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance.

The effectiveness of network administrative organizations in governing inter-jurisdictional natural resources

Public Administration

This paper uses the synthetic control method, incorporating monthly water quality data from 14 river monitoring sites in two neighboring cities, to examine the effectiveness of the Network Administrative Organization (NAO) model in reducing water pollution.