Collaborative Platforms as a Tool of Global Politics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/2519-2949.2021.1.16Keywords:
collaborative platform; collaboration; collaborative governance; partnership; mediationAbstract
The article represents an analysis of the category of collaboration platform from the standpoint of the formation of a global political partnership. Collaborative platforms are relatively stable structures to provide a more flexible mode of governance, able to adapt to new opportunities or changing conditions. The author identified the properties of collaborative platforms, namely: flexibility, relative temporal stability, reconfiguration, modularity, and evolution, which allows distinguishing platforms from other tools for facilitating cooperation. The combination of organizational aspects and structural elements of collaborative platforms allows all stakeholders to connect to modular institutional interfaces patterned to local needs and resources. Particular attention was focused on the effects of positive feedback and the synergy of stakeholders' efforts for facilitating coordination and the creation a unique ecosystem of political actors and processes. The article also presents the typology and examples of collaborative platforms depending on the dominant goals of cooperation and interdependence nodes, which indicate the functional variability of platforms in terms of ensuring a joint solution to problem situations. A separate block identified some issues that accompanied the study of collaborative platforms. Among them, special attention was paid to the contradictions of the effective cooperation criteria, the degree of a potential control, and the problems of intersectoral partnership. The author also outlines the prospects for further study of collaborative platforms as mechanisms of adaptive governance, namely: taking into account the elements of cooperation and institutional dynamics of platforms, determining algorithms for modeling, and the impact of platforms on the stability of the political system as a whole.
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