Governments are increasingly applying collaborative approaches even though little is known about how effectively the outputs are implemented. This empirical study used the ‘Soil and Water’ Working Group of the Dialogue for Nature Consideration in Sweden to investigate which aspects of legitimacy influence the implementation of collaborative outputs. It included document analysis, observation and 38 interviews with participants and representatives of implementing organisations. Despite being recommendations and lacking authoritative rule, the outputs from a collaborative process are implemented to a very high degree in educational and planning material all over Sweden. The forest sector’s general perception of the outputs as having high procedural, source-based and substantive legitimacy has been crucial to their extensive implementation.

尽管人们对产出的执行效率知之甚少，但各国政府正在越来越多地采用协作方法。这项经验研究使用了瑞典自然考虑对话的“土壤和水”工作组来调查合法性的哪些方面影响了协作产出的实施。其中包括文件分析，观察以及对实施组织的参与者和代表的38次访谈。尽管提出了建议并且缺乏权威规则，但是在整个瑞典的教育和规划材料中，协作过程的结果仍得到了很高的实施。森林部门对产出具有较高的程序性，基于来源的实质性合法性的普遍认识对于其广泛实施至关重要。