Public Sector Reform, Time Preferences and Local Policy Networks for Sustainable Development

在分散和分散的大都市地区，实现长期可持续发展是地方政府面临的巨大挑战。文献发现，社会资本影响地方管理者采取长期政策的能力.政策网络内部紧密的非正式联系降低了交易成本，促进了长期可持续发展的合作。然而，现有的研究忽略了公共人事管理改革对官僚网络行为的影响。本研究将调查两种类型的改革（公共服务职业化，和灵活化和外包的人力资源服务合同）如何影响当地官僚的可持续发展的政策网络内的collaborativestrategies在三个拉丁美洲大都市区，麦德林（哥伦比亚），瓜达拉哈拉（墨西哥），巴西利亚（巴西）。我预计职业化改革将改善工作保障，激励官僚们采取长期政策;我预计灵活化和外包将产生相反的效果，使管理者的战略偏向短期主义。这项研究将使用基于代理人的网络建模、现场实验和多元回归分析相结合的方法。通过比较改革对可持续发展政策网络的影响，本文旨在为发展中国家地方政府的新改革途径提供新的理论见解和经验证据。

In fragmented and decentralised metropolitan areas,achieving long-term sustainable development is aformidable challenge for local governments. The literaturefinds that social capital affects the ability of localmanagers to adopt long-term policies. Close-knit informalties within policy networks reduce transaction costs,fostering collaboration for long-term sustainabledevelopment. However, existing studies overlook the effectof public personnel management reforms on bureaucrats'network behaviour. This research will investigate how twotypes of reforms (the professionalisation of public servicecareers, and the flexibilization and outsourcing of humanservices contracting) affect local bureaucrats' collaborativestrategies within policy networks for sustainabledevelopment in three Latin American metropolitan areas,Medellin (Colombia), Guadalajara (Mexico), and Brasilia(Brazil). I expect professionalisation reforms to improve jobsecurity, incentivising bureaucrats' to adopt long-termpolicies; I expect flexibilization and outsourcing to have theopposite effect, skewing managers' strategies towardsshort-termism.This research will use a combination of agent-basednetwork modelling, field experiments, and multivariateregression analysis. By comparing the effects of reforms onpolicy networks for sustainable development, I aim toprovide new theoretical insights and empirical evidence tosuggest new reform avenues for local governments indeveloping countries.