The role of legitimacy in the implementation of outputs from collaborativeprocesses : A national dialogue for forest water consideration in Sweden

• Governments are increasingly applying collaborative approaches even though little is known about how effectively the outputs are implemented. This empirical study used the ‘Soil and Water’ Working Group of the Dialogue for Nature Consideration in Sweden to investigate which aspects of legitimacy influence the implementation of collaborative outputs. It included document analysis, observation and 38 interviews with participants and representatives of implementing organisations. Despite being recommendations and lacking authoritative rule, the outputs from a collaborative process are implemented to a very high degree in educational and planning material all over Sweden. The forest sector’s general perception of the outputs as having high procedural, source-based and substantive legitimacy has been crucial to their extensive implementation.

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Political Science (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Collaborative governance; Dialogue process; Procedural

source-based and substantive legitimacy; Output implementation

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)