What drives the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance? An experimental study
通过在线调查实验，检验了代表性、绩效信息和问题复杂性对公民感知协作治理合法性的影响，发现代表性和正面绩效信息有显著作用，而问题复杂性影响不大。
This study explores the perceived legitimacy of collaborative governance from a citizens’ perspective. We use a preregistered online survey experiment to test the effect of three factors – representation, performance information, and issue complexity – on the perceived legitimacy of a collaboration. Findings show that representation and positive performance information influence citizens’ perceptions of collaborative governance legitimacy, while issue complexity has little impact. Additionally, heterogeneous treatment effects were found: respondents with low trust in public organizations factor representation more into their legitimacy perceptions of collaborative governance, while those with high trust in public organizations show little influence of representation.