Doctoral Dissertation Research: Multi-Stakeholder Perceptions of Legitimacy in a Decentralized Governance System

博士论文研究：去中心化治理体系中多利益相关者对合法性的看法

• 批准号: 1124222
• 负责人: H. Russell Bernard
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1124222&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Multi; Stakeholder

Doctoral candidate, Laura Kowler (University of Florida), supervised by Dr. Christopher McCarty, will investigate the interaction among diverse stakeholders in a decentralized natural resource governance system. The research will be conducted in Bolivia where forums called "platforms" are organized to address the challenges of Bolivia's evolving forest governance system. Platforms are deliberative spaces that enable the discussion and negotiation of disparate, and often conflicting, interpretations of state-sponsored approaches to natural resource management. The overarching research question is: how does the structure of interactions among multiple and distinct stakeholders in platforms impact their individual perceptions of the legitimacy of the deliberative process? This research examines how governance is constructed at the meso (platform) level, while incorporating the effects of the micro (local or community) and macro (national) levels. Platforms represent governance experiments and are analyzed based on the principles of deliberative democracy, which is claimed to secure legitimacy for policies by giving citizens access to previously remote decision-making processes.Kowler will collect social network data and observe four different platforms organized around land use, access, and management issues in the northern Bolivian Amazon region. Whole network data collected in these platforms will be used to operationalize the interactions at the meso level while personal network analysis will be used to measure the scalar influences among platform participants and individuals at the micro and macro levels. Ethnographic methods will contextualize the social network data and enable a more robust understanding of the multi-level interactions shaping governance processes.This research is important because it will provide evidence to natural resource governance and development scholars and practitioners about the governance arrangements, mechanisms, and the socio-political processes that explain these relationships. Findings from this work will also contribute to the larger question of how interaction across levels or organizational borders impacts information flow and coordination through particular individuals located at different levels. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.

博士生，劳拉·科勒（佛罗里达大学），由克里斯托弗·麦卡蒂博士监督，将调查分散的自然资源治理系统中不同利益攸关方之间的互动。这项研究将在玻利维亚进行，在那里组织了称为“平台”的论坛，以应对玻利维亚不断发展的森林治理制度的挑战。平台是审议空间，使讨论和谈判的不同，往往是相互冲突的，国家赞助的自然资源管理方法的解释。首要的研究问题是：平台中多个不同利益相关者之间的互动结构如何影响他们对审议过程合法性的个人看法？本研究探讨如何在中观（平台）层面构建治理，同时纳入微观（地方或社区）和宏观（国家）层面的影响。平台代表了治理实验，并根据协商民主的原则进行分析，协商民主声称通过让公民访问以前远程的决策过程来确保政策的合法性。Kowler将收集社交网络数据，并观察北方玻利维亚亚马逊地区围绕土地使用，访问和管理问题组织的四个不同平台。在这些平台上收集的整个网络数据将用于在中观层面实现互动，而个人网络分析将用于衡量微观和宏观层面上平台参与者和个人之间的标量影响。民族志方法将社会网络数据的背景化，并使多层次的互动塑造governments.This研究是重要的，因为它将提供证据，自然资源治理和发展的学者和从业人员的治理安排，机制，和社会政治过程，解释这些关系的理解。这项工作的发现还将有助于解决一个更大的问题，即跨级别或组织边界的互动如何影响不同级别特定个人的信息流动和协调。资助这项研究也支持研究生的教育。