Christopher Ansell
University of California, Berkeley
102 Papers
648 Citations
Christopher Ansell is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Collaborative governance. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 94 publications. Previous affiliations of Christopher Ansell include University of California.
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Papers
Collaborative governance in theory and practice
Christopher Ansell,Alison Gash +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a meta-analytical study of the existing literature on collaborative governance with the goal of elaborating a contingency model of collaborative governance and identify critical variables that will influence whether or not collaborative governance will produce successful collaboration.
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434'
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the centralization of political parties and elite networks that underlay the birth of the Renaissance state in Florence and argue that to understand state formation one must penetrate beneath the veneer of formal institutions, groups, and goals down to the relational substrata of peoples' actual lives.
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Managing Transboundary Crises: Identifying the Building Blocks of an Effective Response System
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the transboundary dimensions of crises and disasters, discuss how an increase in "transboundedness" affects traditional crisis management challenges and investigate what administrative mechanisms are needed to deal with these compounded challenges.
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The COVID-19 pandemic as a game changer for public administration and leadership? The need for robust governance responses to turbulent problems
TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic reveals that the public sector is not only facing simple and complex problem, but also turbulent problems characterized by the surprising emergence of inconsistent, unpredictability.
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Pragmatist Democracy: Evolutionary Learning as Public Philosophy
Christopher Ansell
- 07 Sep 2011
TL;DR: In this article, a Pragmatist approach to democratic governance in a large-scale institutional setting is presented, with a focus on the power and responsibility of the institutions and the power of the people.
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