Co-evolutionary Dynamics of the Development of Connection for Policy Conflict Resolution by Policy Actors Across Advocacy Coalitions and Their Media Attention-Seeking Strategies in Environmental Governance

Author(s):  
Seunghoo Lim
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi ◽  
Huang ◽  
Chen ◽  
Xu ◽  
Liu

In the context of multilevel governance, collaboration among governmental and non-governmental entities across different levels of government is increasingly popular in China’s environmental governance. Policy actors are engaged in two types of collaboration with other local governments: horizontal and vertical collaboration. Policy actors participate in horizontal collaboration when they work with entities at the same level, and in vertical collaboration when working with governments at different levels. This study examines multilevel environmental governance in China by studying how the decisions of policy actors to participate in local water governance networks are influenced by vertical pressures from higher level government and horizontal influences from other policy actors at the same level. We approach the research questions in the empirical context of local water governance in Dongguan city of Guangdong Province. With survey data collected from 31 municipal departments, 32 town governments, nine water-related private businesses and five NGOs, we tested the hypotheses with Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regressions. The results indicate that vertical pressure and horizontal brokerage are both drivers for participation in the local water governance network.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yaozheng Fang ◽  
Zhaolong Jian ◽  
Zongming Jin ◽  
Xueshuo Xie ◽  
Ye Lu ◽  
...  

Although the blockchain-based Internet of Things (BC-IoT) has been applied in many fields, it still faces many security attacks due to lacking policy-based security management (PbSM). Previous PbSM is usually time-consuming, which is difficult to integrate into BC-IoT directly. The high-latency policy conflict resolving in traditional PbSM cannot meet the BC-IoT’s low-latency requirement. Moreover, the conflict resolution rate is low as the PbSM usually neglects the runtime information. Therefore, it is challenging that achieving an efficient PbSM for BC-IoT and overcomes both time and resource consumption. To address the problem, we propose a novel PbSM for BC-IoT named FPICR to realize fast policy interpretation and dynamic conflict resolution efficiently. We first present policy templates based on system log to interpret policy in high speed in BC-IoT. Benefiting from matching the characteristics of the system processing, FPICR supports interpreting a policy into the smart contract directly without complex content parsing. We then propose a weighted directed policy graph (WDPG) to evaluate the importance of the deployed policies more accurately. To improve the policy conflict resolution rate, we implement the resolution algorithm through reconstructing the WDPG. Taking the traits of these properties, FPICR thus can also remove the redundant data to compress storage space by the WDPG. Experiment results highlight that FPICR outperforms the baseline in all measure metrics. Especially, compared with the state-of-the-art method, the speedup of interpretation in FPICR is about up to 2.1 × . The conflict resolution rate in FPICR can be improved by 6.2% on average and achieve up to 96.1%.


Author(s):  
Emre Göynügür ◽  
Sara Bernardini ◽  
Geeth de Mel ◽  
Kartik Talamadupula ◽  
Murat Şensoy

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