Differentiation and Cooperation in a Metropolitan Area

Dye, Thomas R.; Leibman, Charles S.; Williams, Oliver P.; Herman, Harold

doi:10.2307/2108671

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“…Foster (1998) suggests that central cities and suburbs that have similar social characteristics are more likely to forge interlocal alliances than are central cities and suburbs with dissimilar attributes. This finding is consistent with research from the 1960s showing that socially and economically similar communities are more likely than other communities to use cooperative arrangements for schools and police services (Dye et al 1963).…”

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Recent Developments in the Study of Interjurisdictional Agreements: An Overview and Assessment

Andrew

2009

State and Local Government Review

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What Are InterjurisdictionalAgreements? Zeemering (2008a, 731) describes the IJA as an "innovative governance arrangement" and one of the crucial "features of contemporary local government management." These agreements may be formal or informal, voluntarily created or mandated by a third party. Many arrangements are "paperless" agreements that rest strictly on the good faith of the participating parties (U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations 1985; Atkins 1997).

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Recent Developments in the Study of Interjurisdictional Agreements: An Overview and Assessment

Andrew

2009

State and Local Government Review

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“…The homophily hypothesis argues that local governments will establish contractual ties with similar others. But the theoretical and empirical evidence in the field has been mixed (Dye et al 1963;Schneider 1987;Andrew 2007). Based on the homophily hypothesis, we test whether (1) contractual ties are more likely to be formed among local governments rather than with other forms of political institutions, such as counties, states, or federal government, and (2) whether contractual ties are likely to be established among local governments whose law enforcement agencies are accredited by CALEA.…”

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Regional Integration Through Contracting Networks

Andrew

2008

Urban Affairs Review

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This article advances two general hypotheses, bonding and bridging, to explain the process by which local governments decide whether to enter into contracts. The characteristics of goods and services are important factors in these decisions. In high asset-specificity transactions, the bridging hypothesis predicts local governments will establish ties with only a few “high status” actors, whereas in transactions for services with measurement difficulties, the bonding hypothesis predicts local governments will establish ties with partners of their existing partners to pool resources and reduce commitment risks. The general hypotheses are tested using agreements for law enforcement activities linking 66 actors in the Orlando-Kissimmee metropolitan area during five time periods (i.e., between 1986 and 2003). Using simulation investigation network analysis (SIENA) techniques, this study finds strong statistical support for these hypotheses.

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“…Early studies linked interlocal cooperation to socioeconomic similarity and geographic contiguity between communities (Dye et al 1963;Liebman et al 1963), differences in the scale of jurisdictions (Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations 1985), frequent communication among local officials (Friesema 1971), and council-manager forms of government (Marando 1968).…”

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Transaction Cost, Exchange Embeddedness, and Interlocal Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply

Shrestha

Feiock

2010

Political Research Quarterly

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The authors develop and test an integrated framework for understanding how transaction cost and exchange embeddedness contribute to the general problems of institutional collection action, contracting, and cooperation. An application of the framework to Georgia cities’ interlocal cooperative behavior across multiple services suggests that interlocal cooperation provides a viable alternative to both private contracting and hierarchical arrangements and that transaction characteristics—asset specificity and measurement difficulties—and reciprocal exchange relationship predict the participation and the amount of interlocal cooperation. A curvilinear relationship was discovered between transaction characteristics and interlocal cooperation that extends Williamson’s linear prediction.

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Differentiation and Cooperation in a Metropolitan Area

Cited by 12 publications

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Recent Developments in the Study of Interjurisdictional Agreements: An Overview and Assessment

Recent Developments in the Study of Interjurisdictional Agreements: An Overview and Assessment

Regional Integration Through Contracting Networks

Transaction Cost, Exchange Embeddedness, and Interlocal Cooperation in Local Public Goods Supply

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