Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ansell, Christopher; Miura, Satoshi
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Nagoya University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12636
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 261-276
• 关键词: open innovation platforms; network governance; COLLABORATIVE INNOVATION; participatory platforms; agricultural-research; coproduction; GOVERNMENT; architecture; KNOWLEDGE; cities

摘要

Although not as eye-catching as their business counterparts, many public and private institutions are currently experimenting with using platforms as a strategy of governance. Governance platforms are now being constructed by a wide array of actors at different geographical scales and across a wide range of issue areas. Although often enabled by digital technology, governance platforms fundamentally embody a new organizing logic to achieve distributed participation and mobilization. While private platforms are transforming the way that companies create and market their products or services and shifting the fundamental logic of how value is produced and appropriated, can this powerful organizing logic be harnessed for public as well as private purposes? We investigate how governance platforms generate powerful effects and survey the extant literature on governance platforms. We conclude that governance platforms do demonstrate promise, although they face a number of challenges.