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Cooperation against the odds: A study on the political economy of local development in a country with small firms and small farms

克服困难的合作：小企业和小农场国家地方发展的政治经济学研究

基本信息

批准号：
ES/W00710X/1
负责人：
Kyriaki Gartzou Katsouyanni
金额：
$ 13.82万
依托单位：
London School of Economics and Political Science
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW00710X%2F1
关键词：
Cooperation against odds study political

项目摘要

How is it possible to get economic actors to cooperate in order to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes in settings that are unfavourable to cooperation? This is the key question that I address in my thesis and that I would focus on in a range of publications and events as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow.Established theories of cooperation suggest that overcoming the obstacles to cooperation requires either a robust framework of formal institutions or a long-established culture of trust. Many places in the world are endowed with neither of those characteristics. Yet, when ownership structures are fragmented, sustained cooperation among economic actors is important for processes of economic development, with major implications for both local economic outcomes and domestic political dynamics.I approach the puzzle of the emergence of cooperation in unfavourable settings by drawing on qualitative empirical evidence collected through fieldwork in four pairs of case study areas in Greece. I compare four cases where specific types of cooperation among economic actors emerged in the last 30 years with four otherwise similar (matching) cases where such patterns of cooperation failed to occur. In total, my project relies on 86 semi-structured interviews as well as on documentary evidence, grey literature and the local press. A part of the argument is also tested quantitatively, using nation-wide statistical data about the degree of cooperation and relevant place-based characteristics in each municipality of Greece.I argue that for cooperation to emerge against the odds, two elements are necessary. The first one is leadership. A small group of boundary-spanning leading actors can trigger a process of creating local-level cooperative institutions by performing three specific types of difficult and costly activities. Despite the frequent association of cooperation with homogeneity in a community, I find that successful leaders tend to be translocally embedded, highly skilled, well connected actors, who are in some way outsiders to the area in question. The work of a small group of local-level leading actors can only catalyse broad-based, sustained cooperation if it is nested within a framework of facilitative macro-level institutions. This is the second necessary condition for the emergence of cooperation that I identify in my work. Crucially, supranational actors, such as the EU, can provide such facilitative macro-level institutions. Using Ostrom's (1990) concept of "facilitative political regimes", I argue that, indeed, the EU's agricultural and regional policies have played an important enabling role for the emergence of cooperation in the Greek agricultural and tourism sectors, to an extent compensating for deficiencies in the national institutional framework.The aim of my ESRC Podstdoctoral Fellowship would be to maximise the impact of the findings of my PhD project through:* Publishing my findings in peer-reviewed journal articles and submitting a book proposal to an academic publisher* Publishing a 20-page summary report highlighting the policy implications of my analysis and presenting best practices from my high-cooperation case study areas* Organising an interdisciplinary workshop on "the political economy of local development" and submitting a proposal for a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal * Presenting my policy-relevant conclusions at public events that will be organised in collaboration with research institutions or sectoral/ local associations in both the UK and Greece* Presenting my research output in three international academic conferences* Linking my findings to the broader literature on institutional resilience in times of crisis by conducting a small additional research project with my mentor, Waltraud Schelkle, building on my PhD project.

在不利于合作的环境中，如何才能让经济行为体进行合作，以实现互利的结果？这是我在论文中提出的关键问题，也是我作为ESRC博士后研究员在一系列出版物和活动中关注的问题。现有的合作理论表明，克服合作障碍需要一个强大的正式制度框架或长期建立的信任文化。世界上许多地方都不具备这两种特点。然而，当所有制结构是支离破碎的，经济行为者之间的持续合作是重要的经济发展的过程中，与当地的经济成果和国内的政治dynamics.I方法的难题，在不利的设置合作的出现，通过借鉴定性的经验证据收集，通过实地考察在希腊的四对案例研究领域。我比较了四个案例，在过去的30年中出现了经济行为体之间的具体类型的合作与四个其他类似（匹配）的情况下，这种合作模式未能发生。总的来说，我的项目依赖于86个半结构化的采访，以及文献证据，灰色文献和当地媒体。一部分的论点也进行了定量测试，使用全国范围内的统计数据的合作程度和相关的地方为基础的特点，在希腊的每个municipalities.I认为，合作出现对赔率，两个要素是必要的。第一个是领导力。一小群跨越边界的主要行为体可以通过开展三种具体类型的困难和昂贵的活动，启动建立地方一级合作机构的进程。尽管在一个社区中，合作与同质性经常联系在一起，但我发现，成功的领导者往往是跨地区的嵌入式，高技能，有良好联系的演员，他们在某种程度上是该地区的局外人。只有将地方一级的少数主要行为者的工作置于一个促进性宏观机构的框架内，才能促进基础广泛的持续合作。这是我在工作中确定的合作出现的第二个必要条件。至关重要的是，欧盟等超国家行为体可以提供这种促进性宏观层面的机构。使用奥斯特罗姆（1990年）的“促进政治制度”的概念，我认为，事实上，欧盟的农业和区域政策发挥了重要的促进作用，在希腊农业和旅游业合作的出现，在一定程度上弥补国家制度框架的不足。我的ESRC Podstdoctoral奖学金的目的是最大限度地发挥我的研究结果的影响。PhD项目通过：* 在同行评审期刊文章中发表我的研究结果，并向学术出版商提交一份书籍建议 * 出版一份20页的总结报告，强调我的分析的政策含义，并介绍我的高度合作案例研究领域的最佳实践 * 组织一次关于“地方发展的政治经济学”的跨学科研讨会，并提交一份同行评审期刊特刊的建议 * 在与英国和希腊的研究机构或部门/地方协会合作组织的公共活动中介绍我的政策相关结论 * 在三次国际学术会议上介绍我的研究成果 * 通过与我的导师Waltraud Schelkle在我的博士项目的基础上进行一个小型的额外研究项目，将我的发现与危机时期机构弹性的更广泛文献联系起来。