Stuart Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 167689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3548-4899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Professional work in turbulent times
Public professionals such as medical doctors, teachers, and police officers are key actors in delivering public health, education, and security. However, the service settings in which professionals operate and the cases they face are affected by societal turbulence. The sudden spread of pandemics, geopolitical upheaval, or new digital technologies affect the societal context, organizational resources, and clients’ demands. In this paper, we contr…
Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge of the conditions for enhancing robust governance. To fill that knowledge gap, we ask: How can multi‐level governance, hybrid governance, and societal intelligence contribute to the development of robust response…
To the summit and beyond
Interactive routines such as collaborative performance summits are thought to help collaborating organizations assess and improve their performance. However, there is little systematic evidence to substantiate this claim. This study leverages a longitudinal dataset to examine the summit process and identify the difference between summits that have an impact on performance and those that do not. The study explicates the assumed causal process and …
Having it all
Collaborative governance arrangements are frequently criticized for achieving collaboration at the expense of legitimacy and accountability. We explore the conditions under which legitimacy and accountability can occur in collaborative governance, ultimately aiming to discover whether collaborative arrangements can ‘have it all’, simultaneously being both legitimate and accountable. We leverage the Collaborative Governance Case Database to analys…
Unpredictable cocktails or recurring recipes? Identifying the patterns that shape collaborative performance summits
Advancing the performance of collaborations requires not only shared performance indicators, but also shared performance routines. Collaborative performance summits offer partners a routine for jointly explicating goals, exchanging performance information, examining progress, and exploring actions. However, summits can easily devolve into pointless talking shops or political warzones. Research has identified what ingredients shape a summit, but h…
Public value budgeting
Purpose The principles of public value management (PVM) have greatly inspired public management practitioners and scholars, but the application of these ideas to the everyday practice and research of government has proven to be more difficult. This article formulates propositions for how the principles of PVM could affect one of the core processes of government: budgeting. These propositions can inspire practitioners and be tested by future resea…
Understanding Collaboration
Studying collaborative governance has become a booming business. However, the empirical literature still struggles to produce robust generalizations and cumulative knowledge that link contextual, situational and institutional design factors to processes and outcomes. We still have not mustered the broad and deep evidence base that will really help us sort fact from fiction and identify more and less productive approaches to collaboration. The cur…
Pathways to collaborative performance
The literature on collaborative governance has generated several comprehensive models detailing the conditions which collaborations must meet to achieve collaborative performance. The importance of each separate condition – such as the presence of incentives to participate, appropriate institutional designs, or facilitative leadership – has been validated in various studies. How all of these conditions interact with each other, and whether all of…
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations
Collaborative governance is popular among practitioners and scholars, but getting a grip on the performance of collaborations remains a challenge. Recent research has made progress by identifying appropriate performance measures, yet managing performance also requires appropriate performance routines. This article brings together insights from collaborative governance and performance management to conceptualize collaborative performance regimes; …
Weaknesses of wickedness
It is attractive to frame societal challenges such as climate change, terrorism and migration as ‘wicked issues’. Wickedness theory in its various guises has become popular as it connects the uncertain and political nature of issues with hopeful strategies for strengthening networks, trust and learning. In this paper we take a critical approach towards wickedness, advancing three criticisms: (1) the daily experiences of people and their practices…
Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory
There is considerable scholarly writing about the theory and application of public value concepts, but this article explores why there is, by contrast, so little empirical research on public value. The article then goes on to provide a framework and a research agenda for inspiring and guiding new empirical research, based on three different conceptualizations of public value, with researchers needing to be explicit about which approach they are u…
How to evaluate the governance of transboundary problems? Assessing a national counterterrorism strategy
Wicked problems present major challenges for evaluation as they cross the boundaries between countries, policy domains, organizations, and scientific disciplines. They force evaluators to study large networks in order to trace extended chains of cause and effect. However, beyond this category of ‘regular’ wicked problems that cross boundaries, there is another class of even more complex problems that truly transcend boundaries. Problems such as t…
Value-oriented public management in vulnerable societies
Innovative public management practices can greatly benefit citizens, but often fail due to a mismatch with the societal context. Public Value Management was developed in North America and Western Europe, emphasising public leadership, stakeholder involvement, and information sharing. This article examines whether these practices advocated in resilient societies which are large, egalitarian, and high trust also work in vulnerable societies which a…
Identity threat and antisocial behavior in organizations
Citizen and Subject
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 353 pp
Reflections on state intervention and the Schmidtsdrift Bushmen
Beating around the Bush(man)
This article critically examines the politics of representing “the native” in relation to issues of cultural property, accountability, artistic licence and access. The discussion is focused on a recent exhibition which opened at the South African National Gallery (SANG) in Cape Town on April 13, 1996, entitled “Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture”. The exhibition, which aimed to explore critically the categorisation and (mis…
The human isthmus
(1995). The human isthmus: Dangerous diluted sewerage poison. Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 65-75
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations
Collaborative governance is popular among practitioners and scholars, but getting a grip on the performance of collaborations remains a challenge. Recent research has made progress by identifying appropriate performance measures, yet managing performance also requires appropriate performance routines. This article brings together insights from collaborative governance and performance management to conceptualize collaborative performance regimes; …
Citizen and Subject
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 353 pp
Understanding Collaboration
Studying collaborative governance has become a booming business. However, the empirical literature still struggles to produce robust generalizations and cumulative knowledge that link contextual, situational and institutional design factors to processes and outcomes. We still have not mustered the broad and deep evidence base that will really help us sort fact from fiction and identify more and less productive approaches to collaboration. The cur…
Weaknesses of wickedness
It is attractive to frame societal challenges such as climate change, terrorism and migration as ‘wicked issues’. Wickedness theory in its various guises has become popular as it connects the uncertain and political nature of issues with hopeful strategies for strengthening networks, trust and learning. In this paper we take a critical approach towards wickedness, advancing three criticisms: (1) the daily experiences of people and their practices…
Pathways to collaborative performance
The literature on collaborative governance has generated several comprehensive models detailing the conditions which collaborations must meet to achieve collaborative performance. The importance of each separate condition – such as the presence of incentives to participate, appropriate institutional designs, or facilitative leadership – has been validated in various studies. How all of these conditions interact with each other, and whether all of…
How to evaluate the governance of transboundary problems? Assessing a national counterterrorism strategy
Wicked problems present major challenges for evaluation as they cross the boundaries between countries, policy domains, organizations, and scientific disciplines. They force evaluators to study large networks in order to trace extended chains of cause and effect. However, beyond this category of ‘regular’ wicked problems that cross boundaries, there is another class of even more complex problems that truly transcend boundaries. Problems such as t…
Reflections on state intervention and the Schmidtsdrift Bushmen
To the summit and beyond
Interactive routines such as collaborative performance summits are thought to help collaborating organizations assess and improve their performance. However, there is little systematic evidence to substantiate this claim. This study leverages a longitudinal dataset to examine the summit process and identify the difference between summits that have an impact on performance and those that do not. The study explicates the assumed causal process and …
Beating around the Bush(man)
This article critically examines the politics of representing “the native” in relation to issues of cultural property, accountability, artistic licence and access. The discussion is focused on a recent exhibition which opened at the South African National Gallery (SANG) in Cape Town on April 13, 1996, entitled “Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture”. The exhibition, which aimed to explore critically the categorisation and (mis…
The human isthmus
(1995). The human isthmus: Dangerous diluted sewerage poison. Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 65-75
The human isthmus
(1995). The human isthmus: Dangerous diluted sewerage poison. Critical Arts: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 65-75
Reflections on state intervention and the Schmidtsdrift Bushmen
Beating around the Bush(man)
This article critically examines the politics of representing “the native” in relation to issues of cultural property, accountability, artistic licence and access. The discussion is focused on a recent exhibition which opened at the South African National Gallery (SANG) in Cape Town on April 13, 1996, entitled “Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture”. The exhibition, which aimed to explore critically the categorisation and (mis…
Citizen and Subject
Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Mahmood Mamdani. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 353 pp
Identity threat and antisocial behavior in organizations
Value-oriented public management in vulnerable societies
Innovative public management practices can greatly benefit citizens, but often fail due to a mismatch with the societal context. Public Value Management was developed in North America and Western Europe, emphasising public leadership, stakeholder involvement, and information sharing. This article examines whether these practices advocated in resilient societies which are large, egalitarian, and high trust also work in vulnerable societies which a…
Towards an empirical research agenda for public value theory
There is considerable scholarly writing about the theory and application of public value concepts, but this article explores why there is, by contrast, so little empirical research on public value. The article then goes on to provide a framework and a research agenda for inspiring and guiding new empirical research, based on three different conceptualizations of public value, with researchers needing to be explicit about which approach they are u…
How to evaluate the governance of transboundary problems? Assessing a national counterterrorism strategy
Wicked problems present major challenges for evaluation as they cross the boundaries between countries, policy domains, organizations, and scientific disciplines. They force evaluators to study large networks in order to trace extended chains of cause and effect. However, beyond this category of ‘regular’ wicked problems that cross boundaries, there is another class of even more complex problems that truly transcend boundaries. Problems such as t…
Weaknesses of wickedness
It is attractive to frame societal challenges such as climate change, terrorism and migration as ‘wicked issues’. Wickedness theory in its various guises has become popular as it connects the uncertain and political nature of issues with hopeful strategies for strengthening networks, trust and learning. In this paper we take a critical approach towards wickedness, advancing three criticisms: (1) the daily experiences of people and their practices…
Public value budgeting
Purpose The principles of public value management (PVM) have greatly inspired public management practitioners and scholars, but the application of these ideas to the everyday practice and research of government has proven to be more difficult. This article formulates propositions for how the principles of PVM could affect one of the core processes of government: budgeting. These propositions can inspire practitioners and be tested by future resea…
Understanding Collaboration
Studying collaborative governance has become a booming business. However, the empirical literature still struggles to produce robust generalizations and cumulative knowledge that link contextual, situational and institutional design factors to processes and outcomes. We still have not mustered the broad and deep evidence base that will really help us sort fact from fiction and identify more and less productive approaches to collaboration. The cur…
Pathways to collaborative performance
The literature on collaborative governance has generated several comprehensive models detailing the conditions which collaborations must meet to achieve collaborative performance. The importance of each separate condition – such as the presence of incentives to participate, appropriate institutional designs, or facilitative leadership – has been validated in various studies. How all of these conditions interact with each other, and whether all of…
Getting a Grip on the Performance of Collaborations
Collaborative governance is popular among practitioners and scholars, but getting a grip on the performance of collaborations remains a challenge. Recent research has made progress by identifying appropriate performance measures, yet managing performance also requires appropriate performance routines. This article brings together insights from collaborative governance and performance management to conceptualize collaborative performance regimes; …
Unpredictable cocktails or recurring recipes? Identifying the patterns that shape collaborative performance summits
Advancing the performance of collaborations requires not only shared performance indicators, but also shared performance routines. Collaborative performance summits offer partners a routine for jointly explicating goals, exchanging performance information, examining progress, and exploring actions. However, summits can easily devolve into pointless talking shops or political warzones. Research has identified what ingredients shape a summit, but h…
Having it all
Collaborative governance arrangements are frequently criticized for achieving collaboration at the expense of legitimacy and accountability. We explore the conditions under which legitimacy and accountability can occur in collaborative governance, ultimately aiming to discover whether collaborative arrangements can ‘have it all’, simultaneously being both legitimate and accountable. We leverage the Collaborative Governance Case Database to analys…
To the summit and beyond
Interactive routines such as collaborative performance summits are thought to help collaborating organizations assess and improve their performance. However, there is little systematic evidence to substantiate this claim. This study leverages a longitudinal dataset to examine the summit process and identify the difference between summits that have an impact on performance and those that do not. The study explicates the assumed causal process and …
Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge of the conditions for enhancing robust governance. To fill that knowledge gap, we ask: How can multi‐level governance, hybrid governance, and societal intelligence contribute to the development of robust response…
Professional work in turbulent times
Public professionals such as medical doctors, teachers, and police officers are key actors in delivering public health, education, and security. However, the service settings in which professionals operate and the cases they face are affected by societal turbulence. The sudden spread of pandemics, geopolitical upheaval, or new digital technologies affect the societal context, organizational resources, and clients’ demands. In this paper, we contr…
Political science (14 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Corporate governance (6 works) · Management (5 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works)