Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability

Yi, Hongtao; Suo, Liming; Shen, Ruowen; Zhang, Jiasheng; Ramaswami, A.; Feiock, Richard C.

doi:10.1111/puar.12799

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“…Their results have been replicated elsewhere, including in studies of regional governance in China (Yi et al, ), policy networks dealing with autism in Virginia (Parsons, ), management of small‐scale fishers in Jamaica (Alexander, Bodin, & Barnes, ), joint‐venture partnerships for suburban residential planning in Australia (McAllister, Taylor, & Harman, ), and water supply for human consumption in New York City and Boston (Olivier, ), to name a few.…”

Section: Empirical Research On the Egtmentioning

confidence: 83%

The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Berardo

Lubell

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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The Ecology of Games approach to examining complex governance systems in democratic societies has been recently refurbished to infuse renewed vitality in the analysis of institutions and collective action in polycentric governance systems. This opening article to the special issue on the Ecology of Games Theory (EGT) will discuss the main component elements of the theory, as well as recently produced empirical advances that test and extend it. The article is structured in three sections. The first section describes the EGT as a theory of polycentricity and explains why it is critical to study both the structure and function of polycentric governance systems, including collaboration among policy stakeholders, learning about problems, and equitably distributing the resources generated by policy interactions. The second section reviews empirical evidence that examine structure and function in polycentric systems, including their coevolution. Finally, the third section will provide insights on future research needs to strengthen this newly developed theory of polycentricity.

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Section: Empirical Research On the Egtmentioning

confidence: 83%

The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

Berardo

Lubell

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Studies provide several reasons why information sharing within the same county jurisdiction is more easily observed. First, the transaction costs of coordination and reaching an agreement between local governments located in the same county are supposed to be lower than otherwise (Yi et al ) because of their geographic proximity, similar administrative structures, and previous collaboration experiences (Ahlbrandt ; Downs ; Feiock ). Second, some studies argue that homogenous socioeconomic factors facilitate policy learning between and among governments within the same county 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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“…Finally, there are increasing efforts to empirically explore environmental issues in China using policy process constructs. Drawing on the ICA, Yi and coauthors () examine factors explaining the types of interjurisdictional agreements Chinese municipalities adopt to address transboundary environmental challenges. An unpublished study of sustainability in China uses panel data on 31 provincial units (2003–12) to understand the public’s role in bringing about regulatory change and greater environmental investment (Karuppusamy & Yuan, ).…”

Section: Theoretical and Methodological Innovationsmentioning

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Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

Ruseva¹,

Foster

Arnold

et al. 2019

Policy Studies Journal

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Policy scholars have effectively leveraged policy process models, theories, and frameworks to respond to a variety of important environmental questions. For example, how do environmental issues arrive on the agendas of policymakers? What factors contribute to environmental policy change? What are the designs and effects of institutions (e.g., policies or cultural norms) on environmental governance? In this review, we survey the field of policy process scholarship, focusing on environmental governance, with three objectives. The first objective is to catalog the policy process models, theories, and frameworks most often featured in studies of environmental governance. The second is to capture the methodological choices commonly employed in the application of these models, theories, and frameworks in environmental domains. The third is to identify how these approaches deal with issues central to environmental governance research, including time, space, and policy scale. We aim to identify trends and strategies for integrating key considerations of scale into empirical policy process scholarship.

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Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability

Cited by 96 publications

References 41 publications

The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

The Ecology of Games as a Theory of Polycentricity: Recent Advances and Future Challenges

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

Applying Policy Process Theories to Environmental Governance Research: Themes and New Directions

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