The Institutional Collective Action Framework
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors classified the mechanisms for mitigating institutional collective action dilemmas according to their scope and enforcement, and proposed an agenda to advance the theoretical and empirical development of the ICA approach.Abstract:
Institutional collective action (ICA) dilemmas arise from the division or partitioning of authority in which decisions by one government in one or more specific functional area impacts other governments and/or other functions. The focus on externalities of choice in fragmented systems integrates multiple research traditions into a conceptual system to understand and investigate collective dilemmas ubiquitous in contemporary governance arrangements. The mechanisms for mitigating ICA dilemmas are classified according to their scope and enforcement. Incentives to participate in a mechanism are hypothesized to favor mechanisms that provide the greatest gain for the least cost under different conditions of collaboration risk as determined by the nature of the underlying ICA problem, the compositions of affected jurisdictions, and institutional contexts. After reviewing empirical applications of the framework, an agenda to advance the theoretical and empirical development of the ICA approach is advanced.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Intergovernmental Cooperation in the Provision of Public Safety: Monitoring Mechanisms Embedded in Interlocal Agreements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how monitoring mechanisms embedded in interlocal agreements (ILAs) are associated with vertical and horizontal intergovernmental relations and find that more than half of the ILAs specified a financial reporting system, but an almost equal percentage did not contain features requiring financial records to be available for audit by a third party.
Journal ArticleDOI
How to organize secondary capital city regions: Institutional drivers of locational policy coordination
David Kaufmann,Fritz Sager +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison of the metropolitan regions of Bern, Ottawa-Gatineau, The Hague, and Washington, D.C. reveals that vertical institutional fragmentation, together with high local tax autonomy, create an unlevel playing field, which prompts jurisdictions to behave fiercely in regional tax competition.
Journal ArticleDOI
Governing Sustainable Development through ‘Policy Coherence’? The production and circulation of knowledge in the EU and the OECD
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the production and circulation of approaches for sustainable development governance focusing on the "Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development" (PCSD) concept and argue that organisational interests contributed to the proliferation of PCSD while its added-value remains controversial.
Journal ArticleDOI
Intermunicipal Cooperation in Metropolitan Regions in Brazil and Mexico: Does Federalism Matter?:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that intermunicipal cooperation may serve as a quality check of the region's metropolitan governance, while Latin America is undergoing a process of metropolitanization.
Journal ArticleDOI
Collaborative environmental governance and transaction costs in partnerships: evidence from a social network approach to water management in France
TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to explain how collaborative environmental governance processes operate, but the question of why collaboration relationships form has received much less attention than other aspects of environmental governance.
References
More filters
Book
The Evolution of Cooperation
TL;DR: In this paper, a model based on the concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy in the context of the Prisoner's Dilemma game was developed for cooperation in organisms, and the results of a computer tournament showed how cooperation based on reciprocity can get started in an asocial world, can thrive while interacting with a wide range of other strategies, and can resist invasion once fully established.
Book
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
Book
The Problem of Social Cost
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the suggested courses of action are inappropriate, in that they lead to results which are not necessarily, or even usually, desirable, and therefore, it is recommended to exclude the factory from residential districts (and presumably from other areas in which the emission of smoke would have harmful effects on others).
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop one of perhaps multiple specifications of embeddedness, a concept that has been used to refer broadly to the contingent nature of economic action with respect to cognition, social structure, institutions, and culture.