China’s Local Government Innovations in Inter-Local Collaboration

Shen, Ruowen; Feiock, Richard C.; Yi, Hongtao

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-1762-9_2

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“…More importantly, the chief government officials in the Yangtze River Delta Region gather several times throughout the year to discuss the opportunities and challenges of urban and regional development at official conferences and informal symposia. The cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region rely heavily on formal collaborative agreements, which is consistent with the argument from the ICA framework (Shen, Feiock and Yi 2017). This study aims to determine whether the mobility of local leaders mitigates fragmentation problems and enhances local governance as an innovative mechanism in this region.…”

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“…Granted, there are common problems facing different regions and countries, but the ICA mechanisms in China differ from those in the Western context because of China's authoritarian political structure. We could observe that regional collaborations in China have developed under a more centralized political system (Shen, Feiock and Yi 2017). Feiock (2013) proposes a typology of mechanisms for resolving ICA dilemmas with varying levels of compatibility under various contexts.…”

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Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance

Cui

Chen

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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In response to the increasing attention paid to environmental governance and leadership mobility, this study explores the interactions between leadership mobility and environmental governance performance. From the perspective of networks, this study aims to determine whether leadership mobility networks shape environmental governance outcomes. We argue that leadership transfer networks affect local water governance performance, which is particularly evident when leadership mobility occurs between cities with similar institutional environments. We collected managers’ career data and water governance performance from forty-one cities located in the Pan-Yangtze River Delta region in China from 2011 to 2015. Methodologically, we employ spatial temporal autoregressive models to test the hypotheses and confirm the effects of the leadership transfer network on the homogeneity of water governance performance across the region. Theoretically, this study advances the institutional collective action framework in regional water governance by providing supplementary mechanisms from the perspective of agent network diffusion.

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Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance

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Chen

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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“…And second, the environmental problems have become increasingly important on the policy agenda of city governments. Chinese cities have relied on collaborative actions to address negative externalities of environmental problems (Shen, Feiock and Yi 2017). Given the collaboration experience among the cities in the Delta region in economic development and their advanced economic development status, the Yangtze River Delta established a better platform for city governments to collaborate for environmental protection.…”

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“…The ICA framework has been applied to explain collaborations in economic development (Hawkins 2010), disaster management (Andrew and Kendra 2012), sustainable energy innovation (Yi et al 2018), and climate protection policy (Krause et al 2014). Recently, this framework has been applied to environmental sustainability in China (Shen, Feiock and Yi 2017; Yi et al 2018). These authors examined various types of interlocal collaborative agreements, ranging from informal to formal and explained why certain types of collaborative agreement are adopted.…”

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Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context

Shen

2023

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Chinese city governments have collaborated increasingly to address regional environmental issues by participating in informal and formal collaborative networks. However, collaboration among cities involves collaboration risks. This study investigates how cities strategically select collaborative partners in informal and formal networks in the context of the Yangtze River Delta in China. This study addresses this question by assessing the nature of collaborative problems in the informal and formal networks, the extent of homophily in actors’ preferences, and their relationship multiplexity. Findings from Exponential Random Graph Analysis demonstrate: (1) city governments tend to connect to the popular actor and create relationship closure in the informal network, while only forging relationship closure in the formal network; (2) homophily (in water pollution) and heterogeneity (in air pollution) jointly affect city governments’ choices of collaborative partners in the formal network; and (3) the presence of relationship multiplexity wherein the formation of formal ties is built between city governments with pre-existing informal interactions. The findings advance our knowledge of collaborative partner selection and local collaborative governance in China.

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“…There have been a number of studies on local government collaboration with industry (Abbas et al, 2018), nonprofit organizations (Cheng, 2018), and inter-local collaboration (Shen and Feiock, 2017). These studies have analyzed various topics of collaboration with the local governments, largely through case studies (Vogt et al, 2017), qualitative interviews (Hendriks et al, 2015), and quantitative methods.…”

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How Town Engages Gown: Engagement and Collaboration Between Local Governments and Institutions of Higher Education

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China’s Local Government Innovations in Inter-Local Collaboration

Cited by 6 publications

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Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance

Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance

Regional Governance and Multiplex Networks in Environmental Sustainability: An Exponential Random Graph Model Analysis in the Chinese Local Government Context

How Town Engages Gown: Engagement and Collaboration Between Local Governments and Institutions of Higher Education

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