Coproducing "Clean" Collaborative Governance

Abstract

In the 1990s, collaborative governance emerged as a major public administrative approach for providing a wide array of public services and constraints. A downside to collaborative governance is its potential to create new forms of corruption and expand older ones. Coproduction can promote the public value of "clean" collaborative governance by giving private individuals incentives to combat corruption. Qui tam lawsuits in the United States and jubao ("accusing and reporting") centers in China, despite their limitations, are substantive approaches to the use of the logic of collaborative governance to reward members of the public who expose corruption.

Keywords:

• collaborative governance
• coproduction
• corruption
• False Claims Act
• jubao
• qui tam