Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research

Berardo, Ramiro; Fischer, Manuel; Hamilton, Max

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“…An additional limitation of our data is that collaboration ties among actors are only binary, whereas in reality the general category of collaboration can include many different aspects and intensities. Second, whereas boundary definition is a relevant challenge in any analysis of sectoral governance networks (Berardo et al, 2020), this problem is even more challenging for an analysis accounting for multi-level dynamics. We have thus limited our focus to the domestic governance network, while taking the multi-level dynamics of Europeanization into account as a crucial contextual variable.…”

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“…We verified that the missing responses are not distributed on a specific actor group and do not observe a systematic bias, but we cannot completely eliminate the possibility that other actors are among the 17 that do hold contacts towards EU-level actors or hold particularly positive preferences for EU policies. Missing data, especially in a network setting, can indeed influence results (Berardo et al, 2020).…”

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Informal Europeanization processes and domestic governance networks

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Fischer

Maggetti

2022

European Policy Analysis

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The influence of the European Union on national power structures, actors' institutional opportunities, and governance networks is well established in cases of Europeanization processes unfolding in member states or associated countries for which a formal agreement is in place. This article focuses instead on Europeanization processes that are more informal and do not include formal agreements but bottom-up dynamics. Empirically, we analyze the collaboration network in Swiss energy policy with Exponential Random Graph Models and find that actors with EU contacts and those that consider the international process as important are particularly active in the domestic governance network, whereas actors considering the domestic process as strongly Europeanized and those with pro-EU beliefs are particularly inactive. This points towards a complex influence of informal Europeanization on domestic governance networks.

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Informal Europeanization processes and domestic governance networks

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2022

European Policy Analysis

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“…Members of the network. The members of a network imply the network boundaries as key decisions in network studies, provided its impact in internal and external validity (Berardo et al, 2020;Prell et al, 2016). The type of actors included were public officials at regional and sub-regional levels, representatives of the private and third sectors as well as researchers for both forest and water.…”

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“…Scholars suggest that the type of policy integration outputs not only will be a product of actors' ideational homogeneity, but also their type of interactions (Briassoulis, 2017, p. 59). One way of studying this with SNA is the concept of multiplexity, whereby actors are in contact for more than one reason and develop multiple types of relationships (Berardo et al, 2020). For instance, professional and friendships, but also types of activities such as information sharing and joint fact-finding activities.…”

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Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis

2021

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Natural resource management requires cross-sectoral policy integration because the scope of current environmental and sustainability issues surpasses traditional sectoral boundaries. While the emergence of policy networks in such cases has been observed in the policy integration literature, little is known about how these networks are formed and how they influence the processes and outputs of policy integration. Accordingly, the main aim of this article is to combine the policy integration and policy network literatures to answer two research questions: How can the formation of a policy network for the case of forest and water policy integration be explained? What are the effects of the policy network on policy integration outputs?We use qualitative interviews and social network analysis to inform the study of two regional case studies in Germany and Spain. Our results show the relevance of a policy broker in steering the interactions between forest and water policy actors, combined with the presence of synergetic interdependencies, which facilitated the activation of the network. Additionally, the activities performed contributed to ideational homogenization between the forest and water sectors in terms of problem definition and preferred solutions, despite initial divergences. We conclude that a policy network perspective is an important contribution to the policy integration literature because it allows differentiating the influence of actor-level and network-level factors on integrated processes and outputs. In conclusion, both actors and their relationships should be accounted for as key intermediary variables to better understand and steer policy integration between natural resource sectors.

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“…1. 1. Explanatory power, data‐collection techniques, and network definition are some of the most common topics debated by network analysts (see, e.g., Berardo, Fischer, & Hamilton, 2020; Blom‐Hansen, 1997; Knoke, 2011; Rhodes, 2006; Ulibarri & Scott, 2017; Yi & Scholz, 2016). …”

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Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements

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Schlager²

2021

Policy Studies Journal

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Institutions are the rules of the game that guide policy behavior. Yet, the policy and administration literature on institutions and institutional design have been developed largely in parallel to policy behavior and network literatures. Drawing insights from both, we apply the Institutional Grammar Tool along with survey data to assess how addressing collective action problems result in variations in institutional designs and how rules influence behavior. Our case is the New York City Watersheds, where New York City, local governments, the State, and the Federal government agreed to secure access to high‐quality, unfiltered drinking water for New York City. Despite a long history of conflict, the parties devised a complex governing arrangement that created credible commitments while providing for a variety of public goods. Results show that rule configurations differ depending on whether they create credible commitments or provide public goods, and that credible commitment rules guide collaboration patterns among stakeholders.

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Collaborative Governance and the Challenges of Network-Based Research

Cited by 46 publications

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Informal Europeanization processes and domestic governance networks

Informal Europeanization processes and domestic governance networks

Forest and water policy integration: A process and output‐oriented policy network analysis

Rules and the Ruled: Understanding Joint Patterns of Institutional Design and Behavior in Complex Governing Arrangements

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