Explaining collaboration in consensual and conflictual governance networks

Gronow, Antti; Wagner, Paul M.; Ylä‐Anttila, Tuomas

doi:10.1111/padm.12641

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“…These findings may be associated with the presumably less conflictual character of the local political context not as organized along ideological lines as national policy domains. From this point of view, results would also back findings that effects of belief homophily are pronounced in conflictual environments, while they are less relevant in consensual contexts (Gronow, Wagner, & Ylä‐Anttila, 2020). In this respect, the local community of Trielingerholz may share attributes with groups formalized as agreed upon partnerships, in which the ACF similarly lacks explanatory capacity (Calanni et al, 2015).…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Regarding council–mayor relations (Bussu, 2015; Egner, 2014; Lapuente, 2010), this draws a rather cooperative picture pointing to a strong position of the mayor within the municipality. While this may be regarded in line with a coordinating role of officials in consensual contexts (Gronow et al, 2020), such an interpretation has its limits, because the effect of party homophily for coordination is still higher than the popularity effect of the mayor. Moreover, this underlines that both parties and mayor, matter for coordination in local politics in Germany, thereby resembling results for coalition formation in the same context (Debus & Gross, 2016).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany

Möck

2021

Review of Policy Research

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Research on policy network formation has contributed to an understanding of the patterns of interaction among political actors. Belief homophily, power seeking, and opportunity structures provide explanations studied for specific policy areas. This study tests these established theories in a different environment by asking: What drives policy network formation at the local level? From a review of the literature on policy networks and local politics, the study derives nine hypotheses, which are tested for a German municipality. Information and coordination networks have been collected among its councilors through an online survey. The study identifies the drivers of their formation utilizing exponential random graph models. Findings support the effects of party membership and perceived influence. They also point to the tendency of councilors to coordinate with the mayor and they emphasize local councils as an influential opportunity structure specific to local networks.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany

Möck

2021

Review of Policy Research

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“…Previous research has argued that public authorities often play important roles in policy subsystems due to their official decision-making power (Fischer et al, 2017). Ideally, public authorities can facilitate collaboration among actors with different beliefs and resources (Gronow et al, 2020). Therefore, we expect that governmental actors they are more likely to induce belief change than others (perhaps especially in one of our case countries, oneparty Vietnam): H3: Governmental actors are more likely to influence belief change.…”

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Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation

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Policy learning can alter the perceptions of both the seriousness and the causes of a policy problem, thus also altering the perceived need to do something about the problem. This then allows for the informed weighing of different policy options. Taking a social network perspective, we argue that the role of social influence as a driver of policy learning has been overlooked in the literature. Network research has shown that normatively laden belief change is likely to occur through complex contagion—a process in which an actor receives social reinforcement from more than one contact in its social network. We test the applicability of this idea to policy learning using node-level network regression models on a unique longitudinal policy network survey dataset concerning the Reducing Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) initiative in Brazil, Indonesia, and Vietnam. We find that network connections explain policy learning in Indonesia and Vietnam, where the policy subsystems are collaborative, but not in Brazil, where the level of conflict is higher and the subsystem is more established. The results suggest that policy learning is more likely to result from social influence and complex contagion in collaborative than in conflictual settings.

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“…This result should also be seen in the context of the debate on the role of consensual and conflictive policy domains (Gronow,Wagner, Ylä‐Anttila 2020.; Weible, Heikkila, Pierce, 2018). In Switzerland, there seems to be societal and political agreement at a fundamental level, that the agricultural sector needs support.…”

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Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy

Metz¹,

Lieberherr²,

Schmucki³

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Policy Studies Journal

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Negotiated agreements are a promising pathway for policy change. This paper revisits and extends characteristics of negotiated agreements using the Advocacy Coalition Framework. We focus on two characteristics of negotiated agreements that previous literature has not explicitly addressed. First, we scrutinize the role of policy core and secondary policy beliefs in actor constellations. Secondly, we address partial success, that is, the notion that actors concede on some points, but in return succeed in others. We investigate these two characteristics in the 2014 reform of Swiss agricultural policy. Based on cluster and social network analysis, we exemplify how negotiated agreements embedded in a participatory policy process lead to a surprising level of policy change by promoting agricultural production practices with an intended positive effect on the environment. We show that rather than coalitions based on policy core beliefs, the formation of groups of actors based on secondary beliefs who span across the coalitions formed the basis for a negotiated agreement. Green and conservative groups were both able to achieve partial success. We conclude that insights from this exemplary case study should revive the concept and initialize a research agenda on negotiated agreements as a pathway for change in domestic policymaking.

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Explaining collaboration in consensual and conflictual governance networks

Cited by 29 publications

References 65 publications

Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany

Patterns of Policy Networks at the Local Level in Germany

Policy learning as complex contagion: how social networks shape organizational beliefs in forest-based climate change mitigation

Policy Change Through Negotiated Agreements: The Case of Greening Swiss Agricultural Policy

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