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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 386-407Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2019.1599056
Keywords
Collaborative governance; multi-agency collaboration; quasi-experimental action-research approach; public problem-solving; collaborative process; multi-relational accountability
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- Netherlands Ministry of Justice and Security
- Public Prosecution Service
- National Police
- Taskforce Brabant-Zeeland
- Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) as part of the Smart Governance research program [409-13-038]
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The literature suggests that collaborative governance efforts typically face three types of challenges: substantive problem-solving challenges, collaborative process challenges and multi-relational accountability challenges. In this article, we investigate how these challenges manifest themselves in practice and explore potential ways in which collaborators can deal with them. To do so, we studied eight multi-agency crime-fighting collaborations in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental action-research approach. We found that the challenges present collaborations with a set of paradoxical demands. Collaborations that were able to make progress transcended the paradoxes by adopting a 'both/and' rather than an 'either/or' mindset. Our findings contribute to knowledge about designing effective multi-agency collaborations.
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