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Institutional Implications of Interactive Governance: Insights from Dutch Practice
Author(s) -
EDELENBOS JURIAN
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2004.00268.x
Subject(s) - embeddedness , corporate governance , process (computing) , order (exchange) , political science , business , public relations , sociology , computer science , social science , finance , operating system
Nowadays all kinds of processes of citizen involvement can be observed in practice. We label them as interactive governance in this article. Interactive governance brings with it new proto‐institutions that can conflict with existing institutions of decision making. We analyze these institutional tensions in several Dutch local governments through comparative research. Our main conclusion is that there is a “missing institutional link” between the interactive process and the formal municipal decision‐making process. Interactive governance needs better institutional embeddedness in order to prevent the interactive process from becoming meaningless and useless in formal decision making.