Polycentricity and the Hollow State: Exploring Shared Personnel as a Source of Connectivity in Fragmented Urban Systems.
The Ecology of Games (EoG) theory couples institutional rational choice with social network theory, articulating how transaction costs, social capital, and collective action dilemmas shape networks and network outcomes in polycentric governance systems. EoG literature has often focused on social–rel...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 52 - 77 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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