Collaborative governance regimes in illiberal democracies: A comparative case of drug harm reduction policy in central-eastern europe

Abstract

Collaborative governance research and practice seem underdeveloped in Central-Eastern Europe compared to its Western counterpart. Recent-ly, one can also observe a turn from liberal values in CEE. Taking states’ important role in shaping collaborative governance as a starting point, this paper includes a theoretical ambition of developing a classification of collaborative governance regimes. Furthermore, through qualitative analysis of drug harm reduction policies in Visegrád coun-tries, it aims to contribute to the understanding of how illiberal governance affects collaborative gov-ernance. The results show that the impact of illib-eralism on collaborative governance regimes does not appear uniformly across different policy areas.