Delegation, Collaborative Governance, and Nondistributive Policy: The Curious Case of Joint Partnerships in American Federalism

Bertelli, Anthony M.; McCann, Pamela J. Clouser; Travaglini, G.

doi:10.1086/700724

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“…Huber & McCarty, 2004; McCubbins, Noll, & Weingast, 1989), public participation (cf. Ansell, 2011; Bertelli, Clouser McCann, & Travaglini, 2019; Nabatchi, 2012; Radin, Cooper, & McCool, 1989), and bureaucratic autonomy (cf. Carpenter, 2001; Carpenter & Krause, 2012; Miller & Whitford, 2016; Yesilkagit & Van Thiel, 2008).…”

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An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

Bertelli

Hassan

Honig³

et al. 2020

Governance

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Developing nations demand a different scholarly approach in the field of public administration. We advance an agenda for research that stands on four pillars. First, in the absence of easily accessible data scholars of developing world public administration must assemble it for themselves. Second, building and testing theory plays a paramount role because researchers face limited information. Third, in developing countries, multi‐national and non‐governmental organizations are often crucial and must be considered in studying public administration. Fourth, given the novelties and ambiguities researchers face, qualitative information must be integrated throughout the research process. Our article—and the articles in this volume—constitute a call for developing country research to contribute to the study of public administration writ large, informing our understanding of both developing and developed states.

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An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

Bertelli

Hassan

Honig³

et al. 2020

Governance

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“…Explicit [18] and implicit [19] in the collaborative governance literature is that entities join forces to address shared problems. Yet, entities may work together because their problems are sufficiently intertwined with other problems beyond their authorities they can only resolve them in concert with resolving other problems.…”

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Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Michaels

2023

PLOS Water

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Flood protection is a leading priority for urban water sustainability. Making cities more resilient to flooding has become urgent as the climate changes and as cities increasingly become the loci of human population and resources. Reducing the risk of future flooding in cities often necessitates different jurisdictions working together. They may do so because they confront a shared problem. This was the case in the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, when partnering agencies shared a single focus on reducing flood risk from Beal Slough to the Nebraska State Penitentiary. In contrast, entities may band together to confront braided problems, intertwined problems that cannot be resolved independently. The Antelope Valley Project, also in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, combined addressing three problems, for which individual solutions had not been achieved: reducing flood risk from Antelope Creek, improving road transportation safety and capacity, and revitalizing neighborhoods with deteriorating physical structures. Such a scenario is becoming more frequent as cities increasingly face multiple demands on the same location. As this comparative case study demonstrates, there are implications for administrative coordination for whether flood risk reduction can be achieved as a sole focus of a project and when it cannot. The Antelope Valley Project necessitated an innovative management structure and governance process that the Beal Slough Project did not. In the Antelope Valley Project three different, stand-alone entities operating in dissimilar, substantive domains redirected their independent policies to harmonize their problem solving. Collaborative learning among policy actors in the Antelope Valley was more extensive and across policy domains than was required in the Beal Slough Project. Yet, both projects were triggered by policy-oriented learning from the remapping of their respective subwatersheds. The study contributes to understanding interdependency among policy problems and to reducing urban flood risk through administrative coordination.

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“…Agency success in these coalition‐building endeavors displaces the kind of ex ante controls that lie at the heart of political control theories, for instance, statutory procedural requirements (cf. Bertelli and Doherty 2019; Bertelli, Travaglini, and McCann 2019). Essentially, both ex ante and ex post political control compete with RSA, and they may meet resistance from the very audiences that are the sources of RSA.…”

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Reputation‐SourcedAuthority and the Prospect of Unchecked Bureaucratic Power

Bertelli

Busuioc

2020

Public Administration Review

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We explore the democratic implications of a reputational account of bureaucratic authority. While an influential literature has examined the relevance of reputation—and mutual exchange between principals and agents in public organizations generally—the normative implications of these insights have largely escaped scrutiny. We discuss how reputation‐building impacts both the ability and the motivation of principals to oversee administrative policymaking. We argue that reputation‐sourced authority eschews ex ante incentives through the claims‐making and maneuvering of bureaucrats as they develop reputations with audiences. At the same time, it de‐legitimizes ex post oversight because monitoring and compliance must compete both with reputational authority and with resistance from the audiences that are the very sources of such authority.

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Delegation, Collaborative Governance, and Nondistributive Policy: The Curious Case of Joint Partnerships in American Federalism

Cited by 9 publications

References 21 publications

An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

An agenda for the study of Public Administration in Developing Countries

Differentiating between urban flood risk as a unitary problem and as a strand in a braided problem set: Implications for administrative coordination

Reputation‐SourcedAuthority and the Prospect of Unchecked Bureaucratic Power

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