The Impact of Forum Interdependence and Network Structure on Actor Performance in Complex Governance Systems.

One of the main assumptions of the Ecology of Games Framework (EGF) is that governance processes are heavily affected by the interactions among policy actors that take place in multiple decision‐making forums, which often function interdependently. In this article, we use data collected in the Tampa...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 159 - 178
Autores principales: Mewhirter, Jack, Berardo, Ramiro
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2019
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        Interdependence theory
        Network governance
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        ecology of games
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        institutional externalities
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      ab: One of the main assumptions of the Ecology of Games Framework (EGF) is that governance processes are heavily affected by the interactions among policy actors that take place in multiple decision‐making forums, which often function interdependently. In this article, we use data collected in the Tampa Bay and California Delta water governance systems to examine how "biophysical interdependence"—the extent to which forums deal with interconnected policy problems—impacts the costs that actors face when they participate in forums, which in turn can affect their performance in them. Furthermore, we examine how the individual information exchange networks that actors have (i.e., their ego‐networks) can mediate the previous relationship. We find that actors with networks that have more closure are better able to mitigate the costs associated with participating in biophysically interdependent forums, thus leading to better in‐forum performance. Our findings shed new light on the relationship between structure and function in complex ecologies of games.
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