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来源

URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.53,Issue3,P.578-602

语言

英文

关键字

urban governance; Denver; collaborative governance; transit; children; DENVER; NETWORKS; POLITICS; ENOUGH; POLICY; RAIL

作者单位

[Clarke, Susan E.] Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. Clarke, SE (reprint author), Univ Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309 USA. E-Mail: clarkes@colorado.edu

摘要

The renaissance in place-based, cross-sector local collaboratives in American cities is distinguished by diverse strategies and actors. This exploratory research compares early stages of two collaborative initiatives-one relying on traditional state-centric collaboration models and the other drawing on emergent civil society collaboration models-in Denver, Colorado. The FasTracks initiative is a complex public-sector effort involving multiple jurisdictions, private-sector partners, and civic organizations in developing a regional transit system. The Children's Corridor, spearheaded by the Piton Foundation, links efforts of local government, multiple nonprofit organizations, and private providers to improve children's well-being in a targeted area. Although the Children's Corridor collaboration suffered unanticipated disruptions, the argument here is not that one collaborative strategy is more effective than another. Rather, the resilience of the large-scale FasTracks collaborative-despite high transaction costs, diverse interests, eroding trust-was contingent on "bridging the collaborative divide" with dynamic scaling to accommodate multiple governance challenges.