Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games
Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Forum Involvement in a Weakly Institutionalized Ecology of Policy Games
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物以类聚：论坛参与弱制度化的政策博弈生态
DOI：
10.1111/psj.12418
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
R. Berardo
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作者：
Tomás Olivier;R. Berardo
现代民主国家的政策制定通常发生在多中心治理体系中，其中决策是在多个相对相互依赖的政策论坛中做出的。然而，政策论坛的作用和绩效可能会受到其更广泛的制度背景的影响。制度环境强加了利益相关者在自组织时必须考虑的交易成本，特别是在协作交易成本很高的制度化较弱的环境中。利用社交网络分析，我们分析了阿根廷丘布特河下游河谷的论坛参与动态；制度化薄弱，面对人口增长和气候变化，水政策问题日益增多。我们的研究结果表明，论坛参与者倾向于认为某些类型的集体行动问题更为突出，并且论坛倾向于吸引对合作问题（一种特定类型的集体行动问题）具有相似看法的参与者。这些情况不仅可以提供论坛，以促进具有相似看法的利益相关者之间建立信任，而且还可以重现关于哪些是主要集体行动问题的某些看法，从长远来看，这可能会加深冲突。我们的研究结果揭示了制度化程度较弱的环境中政策利益相关者可以自我组织以促进集体行动的条件。
Policymaking in modern democracies often occurs in polycentric governance systems where decisions are made in multiple, relatively interdependent policy forums. The role and performance of policy forums, however, is likely to be influenced by their broader institutional context. Institutional contexts impose transaction costs that stakeholders must consider when self‐organizing, particularly in weakly institutionalized settings where the transaction costs of collaboration are high. Using social network analysis, we analyze forum participation dynamics in the Lower Valley of the Chubut River in Argentina; a weakly institutionalized setting where water policy problems are increasing in the face of growing population and climate change. Our findings show that forum participants tend to perceive certain types of collective action problems as more salient, and forums tend to attract participants with similar perceptions about cooperation problems (a specific type of collective action problem). These situations may lend forums not only to facilitate the generation of trust among stakeholders with similar perceptions, but also to reproduce certain perceptions about which are the dominant collective action problems, which can deepen conflict in the long run. Our findings shed light on the conditions under which policy stakeholders in weakly institutionalized settings may self‐organize to foster collective action.