Collaborative governance in strong state settings: perceived voluntariness and the role of the state in Rural China
研究中国内蒙古草原管理中的跨部门协作，发现自愿参与有限但能提升协作水平和绩效，国家同时扮演强制与赋能角色。
Can collaborative governance as understood through Western scholarship be enacted in strong state settings? We explore the perceived nature of voluntary participation and the role of the state in long-standing local efforts at cross-sector collaboration in grassland management in China’s autonomous region of Inner Mongolia. We find that collaborative governance appears to be enacted but with variable levels of collaboration and with limited voluntary participation. We also find that the state plays multiple roles in collaboration governance, some coercive while others enabling of performance and that when voluntary participation is present, it raises levels of collaboration and performance outcomes.