Network Structure and Governance Performance: What Makes a Difference?

Yi, Hongtao

doi:10.1111/puar.12886

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“…Based on the results, we argue that contacting same county member governments would increase the chance to get the information particularly when the information seems to be valuable and thus the contacted government would highly anticipate receiving many information sharing requests from others. This study also suggests the need for policy entrepreneurs who can possibly bond municipal governments beyond county jurisdictional boundaries to achieve potential collective benefits (Yi ) from the richness of information in a vast region like the Orlando metropolitan area.…”

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Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries

Kwak

Song

2019

Public Administration Review

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Studies have found that information sharing between city governments can be easily observed within the same county jurisdiction, but less attention has been paid to the reasons why the jurisdictional boundary matters. This article fills this lacuna, drawing on the insight of the "strength of strong ties" argument that "people help their friends first." The analysis reveals that city governments in the Orlando, Florida, metropolitan area are more likely to share economic development information (EDI) with governments in the same county as the collective demand for such information in that area increases. This study additionally finds that the greater the demand for EDI, the more likely it is that city governments will seek the information from their county members. As a result, as the demand for information increases among city governments in a metropolitan area, the likelihood that it will be shared by all members of the area beyond the county boundaries decreases. Evidence for Practice• When there is a high collective demand for information sharing from other cities, municipal governments and their officials are more likely to provide information to governments within the same county jurisdictional boundary. • As municipal governments' information needs increase, they will have a greater tendency to contact same-county members for that information. • This research suggests a strong need for policy entrepreneurs who can bond weak-tied city governments across county jurisdictional boundaries and facilitate intergovernmental information sharing beyond jurisdictional boundaries.

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Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries

Kwak

Song

2019

Public Administration Review

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“…This research responds to a critical need for social science research on stakeholder engagement in energy policy decisions. As jurisdictions worldwide shift away from fossil fuel use, a growing number of stakeholders are involved in energy governance (Ottinger et al ; Yi ). Yet social science research rarely informs the design of stakeholder engagement processes in the energy sector (MacArthur ).…”

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Exploring How Institutional Arrangements Shape Stakeholder Influence on Policy Decisions: A Comparative Analysis in the Energy Sector

Baldwin

2018

Public Administration Review

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In recent years, there has been an expansion of efforts to include stakeholders in administrative policy making. Despite significant potential to improve policy decisions, empirical evidence suggests that not all participatory processes provide meaningful opportunities for stakeholders to shape policy and may even give the most powerful stakeholder groups disproportionate influence over policy decisions. This article argues that the institutional arrangements for stakeholder engagement-the rules and norms that determine which stakeholders can participate and how-affect stakeholders' influence on policy decisions. This article uses state energy efficiency policy making as a context in which to compare how different institutional arrangements shape the ways in which stakeholders engage in and influence the policy process across two states, Connecticut and Maryland. Findings highlight that institutional arrangements can be used to increase participation, mitigate undue influence of industrial stakeholders, and increase the influence of public interest stakeholder organizations.

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“…Mandated networks are created by a government agency, and voluntary networks are created from a bottom-up agreement [23,25]. Self-organizing networks are decentralized and dynamic, whereas managed networks involve power and control from network managers [26,27]. With consideration of different characteristics of multiple networks, the water collaboration network in this study can be best described as a managed network with the Water Affairs Bureau (WAB) as a broker or lead organization in the network [5,28].…”

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“…For example, Berardo and Scholz [26] found that bridging structures and reciprocal bonding relationships function differently in resolving cooperation risk dilemmas and in managing networks. Yi [27] further examined the influence of bonding and bridging social capital on the performance of green energy policy networks in the U.S.…”

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What Drives the Performance of Collaboration Networks: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Local Water Governance in China

Cui

2020

IJERPH

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Local water governance is challenging given the significance to public health and the difficulties to manage it in a fragmented administrative system. A collaboration network is a popular governance tool in local governance to cope with functional fragmentation problems and institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas. Empirical works are needed to examine the outcomes of such governance networks, especially in the context of environmental governance. With fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), this article seeks to evaluate the outcomes of collaboration networks by investigating the influence of network structures on local water governance performance in China. Based on empirical analyses on a dataset of twenty local water governance networks implementing the Water Ecological Civilization Pilot Project in China, the findings suggest that a high overall bridging and bonding of social capital and a low network density are important determinants of effective collaboration networks. This study has policy implications for the design of local collaboration networks in facilitating effective environmental governance.

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Network Structure and Governance Performance: What Makes a Difference?

Cited by 56 publications

References 51 publications

Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries

Strength of Strong Ties in Intercity Government Information Sharing and County Jurisdictional Boundaries

Exploring How Institutional Arrangements Shape Stakeholder Influence on Policy Decisions: A Comparative Analysis in the Energy Sector

What Drives the Performance of Collaboration Networks: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Local Water Governance in China

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