Explaining collaboration in consensual and conflictual governance networks

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gronow, Antti; Wagner, Paul; Yla-Anttila, Tuomas
• 署名单位: University of Helsinki
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12641
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 730-745
• 关键词: advocacy coalition framework; climate policy; information exchange; collective action; management; POWER; drivers; COORDINATION; uncertainty; performance

摘要

The conditions under which policy beliefs and influential actors shape collaborative behaviour in governance networks are not well understood. This article applies exponential random graph models to network data from Finland and Sweden to investigate how beliefs, reputational power and the role of public authorities' structure collaboration ties into the two countries' climate change governance networks. Results show that only in Finland's conflictual climate policy domain do actors collaborate with those with similar beliefs and with reputational power, while only in Sweden's consensual climate policy domain do public authorities play central impartial coordinating roles. These results indicate that conflict is present in a governance network when beliefs and reputational power determine collaboration and that it is absent when public authorities occupy central roles. They also suggest that relative success in climate policy action is likely to occur when public authorities take on network manager roles.