Collaboration Engineering for Policy Making: A Theory of Good Policy in a Collaborative Action
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This paper is concerned with the potential application of Collaboration Engineering (CE) to the field of Policy-making. We claim that CE will lead to improved policy-making processes (PMPs) i.e. the quality of the policies that are being decided on. Policy-making involves several actors with divergent interests, though a policy can only be realized on the basis of collaboration in which the actors involved contribute the resources needed. However, the analysis to realize a “good policy” in a collaborative PMP poses interesting challenges: what does it mean for a policy to be good in a collaborative effort? The aim of our research is therefore to develop a theory to improve the quality of policies and the collaborative processes.
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