Collaborative Governance has been defined as the process of establishing, steering, facilitating, operating, and monitoring cross-sectoral organizational arrangement to address public policy problems that cannot be easily addressed by a single organization or the public sector alone.
In this introductory essay, we first outline some major forces that have been driving the rise of collaborative governance in each of the two countries. Then we explore the theoretical and policy problems raised by this trend in each country. Next, we provide an overview of the contributions to this book.
