Network Structure and Governance Performance: What Makes a Difference?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Yi, Hongtao
• 署名单位: University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12886
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 195-205
• 关键词: sector organizational networks; renewable portfolio standards; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; policy networks; STATES; determinants; US; Embeddedness; COOPERATION; hyperlink

摘要

Comparing and evaluating the performance of governance networks are important tasks for researchers and practitioners of network governance and public administration. Limited by the lack of network data across space and time, the study of network performance and effectiveness at the network level is not on pace with advances in theories and methodologies in network analysis. With a novel methodology to measure clean energy governance networks using hyperlink network analysis across the contiguous United States, this article collects a large sample of self-organizing policy networks in the same policy domain across geographic locations. This article proposes that governance networks with high overall bridging and bonding social capital perform better. Regression analyses show that network structures have statistically significant effects on governance outcomes. States with high average closeness and average clustering in their governance networks are more likely to have faster clean energy development.