The impact of political attention on collaborative environmental governance among municipal street‐level bureaucrats.
Collaboration in governing complex environmental challenges is the norm. However, collaboration does not necessarily deliver desirable outcomes, and the importance of forming collaborative networks that effectively address the challenges at hand has been emphasized in theory and practice. Evidence f...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 852 - 876 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=189526212&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 189526212 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 0190292X PSJ jtl: Policy Studies Journal issn: 0190292X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2025 vid: 53 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 189526212 10.1111/psj.70020 ppf: 852 ppct: 24 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 1.7MB tig: atl: The impact of political attention on collaborative environmental governance among municipal street‐level bureaucrats. aug: au: Becker, Per Bodin, Örjan affil: Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety, Lund University, Lund, Sweden Department of Leadership and Command & Control, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North‐West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden su: Local government Network governance Municipal officials & employees Public administration Social networks Political participation Environmental management Flood damage prevention sug: subj: Local government Network governance Municipal officials & employees Public administration Social networks Political participation Other General Government Support Other Individual and Family Services Environmental management Flood damage prevention keyword: Collaborative governance political attention street‐level bureaucrat atención política burócrata de calle Gobernanza colaborativa 协作治理 政治注意力 街头官僚 Collaborative governance political attention street‐level bureaucrat atención política burócrata de calle Gobernanza colaborativa 协作治理 政治注意力 街头官僚 ab: Collaboration in governing complex environmental challenges is the norm. However, collaboration does not necessarily deliver desirable outcomes, and the importance of forming collaborative networks that effectively address the challenges at hand has been emphasized in theory and practice. Evidence for what constitutes a suitable network structure is still scarce, and the understanding of what factors drive collaboration that constitutes such networks is limited. Utilizing a comparative approach, this study elucidates if and how varying political attention impacts the social tie formation among municipal street‐level bureaucrats addressing flood risk mitigation in their daily work. Our results show that political attention, conceptualized as saliency and a broad framing of the issue, has a marked effect on network formation processes. When political attention is low, water & sewage experts (technical experts) dominate tie formation, while politicians and senior managers (decision makers) and planners (cross‐sector experts) increase their relative efforts in forming collaborative ties when political attention is high. Further, political attention is also positively associated with appointed coordinators' abilities to collaborate with others. Both these processes coincide with desirable governance outcomes. Our study of local‐level collaborative governance demonstrates a need to better understand the nexus of political attention, collaborative network formation, and environmental governance outcomes. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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