collaborative governance

Mediating collaborations: The role of participant diversity in watershed governance

This paper combines the difference-in-differences design and mediation analysis to examine the impacts of nonprofit watershed councils and the participant diversity on water quality.

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

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

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.

Trust and two-way coproduction: Paired experiments on citizens and policymakers

This paper conducts a paired of experiments on citizens and municipal policymakers to examine the impacts of trust in government on coproductioin in disaster resilience planning.

The “watershed” of collaboration: The impact of legislation and collaborative actions on environmental outcomes

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.

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

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

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

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.