BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Please join the Center for Policy Design and Governance (CPDG) at Syracuse University in welcoming Jack Mewhirter\, a visiting scholar fr om the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Light refreshments will be ser ved.Presenter \;Jack Mewhirter (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville)Ti tleCollaboration Has an Audience: How Collaborative Design Choices Shape P ublic Trust and Coproductive Capacity in Policy SubsystemsAbstractCollabor ation is a widely employed strategy for addressing “wicked” policy problem s. While scholars have long recognized that collaborative features\, inclu ding the diversification of associated members\, can shape collaborative o utputs and outcomes\, how the affected public perceives and reacts to thes e choices is left largely unexamined.This talk considers how and to what e xtent collaborative membership—specifically\, the extent to which membersh ips include civil-society groups that directly advocate for local citizens —impacts public trust in\, and willingness to coproduce with\, the agencie s that convene them. Leveraging observational and experimental evidence wi thin two policy domains inherently subject to issue and jurisdictional int erdependence that foster collaboration (environmental and policing policy arenas)\, the evidence indicates that agencies which engage civil-society groups in collaborative proceedings earn public credit\, in both trust and willingness to coproduce\, while those that exclude them incur penalties on both counts. Even modest citizen-stakeholder influence outperforms no c ollaboration at all\, though returns are better realized as civil-society influence rises. \;Together\, that evidence positions the public as a consequential\, and largely unmodeled\, actor in collaborative systems. DTEND:20261014T183000Z DTSTAMP:20260924T201128Z DTSTART:20261014T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Salon Seminar Series: Collaboration Has an Audience UID:RFCALITEM639258630887873571 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Please join the Center for Policy Design an d Governance (CPDG) at Syracuse University in welcoming Jack Mewhirter\, a visiting scholar from the University of Tennessee\, Knoxville. Light refr eshments will be served.

Presenter \;

Jack Mewhirter (University of Tennessee\, Knoxville)

Title

< p>Collaboration Has an Audience: How Collaborative Design Choices Shape Pu blic Trust and Coproductive Capacity in Policy Subsystems

Abstract< /h3>

Collaboration is a widely employed strategy for addressing “wicked” policy problems. While scholars have long recognized that collaborative f eatures\, including the diversification of associated members\, can shape collaborative outputs and outcomes\, how the affected public perceives and reacts to these choices is left largely unexamined.

This talk consi ders how and to what extent collaborative membership—specifically\, the ex tent to which memberships include civil-society groups that directly advoc ate for local citizens—impacts public trust in\, and willingness to coprod uce with\, the agencies that convene them.

Leveraging observational and experimental evidence within two policy domains inherently subject to issue and jurisdictional interdependence that foster collaboration (envir onmental and policing policy arenas)\, the evidence indicates that agencie s which engage civil-society groups in collaborative proceedings earn publ ic credit\, in both trust and willingness to coproduce\, while those that exclude them incur penalties on both counts. Even modest citizen-stakehold er influence outperforms no collaboration at all\, though returns are bett er realized as civil-society influence rises. \;

Together\, that evidence positions the public as a consequential\, and largely unmodeled\ , actor in collaborative systems.

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