Self-Organizing Federalism: Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas

ISBN-13: 9780521764933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 368 str.

Richard C. Feiock; John T. Scholz

Opis

This book investigates the self-organizing responses of governments and interests to the institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas of particular concern to students of federalism, urban governance, and regional management of natural resources. ICA dilemmas arise in fragmented systems whenever decisions by one independent formal authority do not consider costs or benefits imposed on others. The ICA framework analyzes networks, joint projects, partnerships, and other mechanisms developed by affected parties to mitigate ICA decision externalities. These mechanisms play a widespread but little-understood role in federalist systems by reshaping incentives in order to encourage coordination/cooperation. The empirical studies of urban service delivery and regional integration of regional resource management address three questions: How does a given mechanism mitigate costs of uncoordinated decisions? What incentives do potential members have to create the mechanism? How do incentives induced by the mitigating mechanism affect its sustainability in a changing environment and its adaptability to other ICA dilemmas?

Recenzje

'The authors have produced an intelligent, accessible, and academic agenda-setting volume worthy of wide readership.' Mark Rhinard, Public Administration

Spis treści

Part I. Self-Organizing Versus Centralized Solutions to Institutional Collective Action Problems: Theoretical Considerations: 1. Self-organizing governance of institutional collective action dilemmas: an overview Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz; 2. Can consolidation preserve local autonomy? Mitigating vertical and horizontal dilemmas Andrew B. Whitford; 3. The institutional collective action perspective on self-organizing mechanism: market failures and transaction cost problems Annette Steinacker; 4. Conflict, power, and irreconcilable preferences: some limits to self organizing mechanism Bryan Jones; Part II. Integrating Metropolitan Service Provision: Networks, Contracts, Agreements, and Special Districts: 5. Adaptive versus restrictive contracts: can they resolve different risk problems? Simon Andrew; 6. Do risk profiles of services alter contractual patterns? A comparison across multiple metropolitan services Manoj Shrestha; 7. Special districts versus contracts: complements or substitutes? Megan Mullin; 8. The political market for intergovernmental cooperation Kenneth N. Bickers, Stephanie Post and Robert M. Stein; Part III. Integrating Regional Policies through Networks, Joint Ventures, and Partnerships: 9. Collaborative institutions, functional areas, and beliefs: what are their roles in policy networks? Christopher M. Weible; 10. Sustaining joint ventures: the role of resource exchange and the strength of inter-organizational relationship Ramiro Berardo; 11. Institutional collective action in an ecology of games Mark Lubell, Adam Henry and Mike McCoy; 12. Enhancing vertical and horizontal self-organization: harnessing informal networks to integrate policies within and between governments in the European Union Paul Thurner; Part IV. Self-Organizing Governance and Institutional Collective Action: 13. Self-organizing mechanisms for mitigating institutional collective action dilemmas: an assessment and research agenda Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz.