PUBLICATIONS

Michael Kern has published on innovation and agreement, assessing ripeness, the role of universities in collaborative governance, evaluating environmental collaboration, the public sector as mediator, hatchery reform, nuclear site cleanup, eldercare, and other topics. He focuses on areas where the interface between scholar and practitioner can contribute to moving the field of collaborative governance forward and improving the collaborative capacity of project conveners, sponsors, participants, decision makers, and third-party facilitators. Select publications include:

 

• Page, S. B., Thomas, C., Kern, M., Murphy, A., & Page, C. (2023). Producing Agreements and Innovations in Collaborative Governance. Perspectives on Public Management and Governance, gvad006.

• Kern, M.A. and A.G. Murphy. 2022. What Do You Expect?: Assessing Whether a Situation is “Ripe” for Collaborative Governance. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research.

• Kern, M.A. and L.S. Smutko. 2021. Collaborative Governance: The Role of University Centers, Institutes, and Programs. Conflict Resolution Quarterly.

• Trevor Robinson, Michael Kern, Rebecca Sero & Craig W. Thomas (2019) How Collaborative Governance Practitioners Can Assess the Effectiveness of Collaborative Environmental Governance, While Also Evaluating Their Own Services, Society & Natural Resources, DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1668990

• Developing and Managing an Advisory Board to Support Extension-Based Centers and Other Programs (495 KB) Journal of Extension February 2018, Volume 56, Number 1

• Creating and Implementing Diverse Development Strategies to Support Extension Centers and Programs (527 KB) Journal of Extension February 2018, Volume 56, Number 1

• Urban Extension: Aligning with the Needs of Urban Audiences Through Subject-Matter Centers, Journal of Human Sciences and Extension Volume 5, Number 2

• The Public Sector as Mediator: The Role of Public Institutions in Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution in the Mediation Handbook: Research, Theory and Practice (2017) Routledge Publishing