Self-Organizing Mechanisms for Mitigating Institutional Collective Action Dilemmas: An Assessment and Research Agenda

The deterioration and destruction of the environment is becoming more and more considerable and greater efforts are needed to stop it. To accomplish this feat, all members of society must identify with solving environmental problems, environmental collective action being one of the most relevant means of doing so. From this perspective, the analysis of the psychosocial factors that lead to participation in environmental collective action emerges as a priority objective in the research agenda. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the role of “environmental identity”, as conceptualized by Clayton, as a central axis for explaining environmental collective action. The inclusion of the latter in the theoretical framework of the SIMCA (social identity model of collective action) model gives rise to the model that we have called EIMECA (environmental identity model of environmental collective action). Two studies were conducted (344 and 720 participants, respectively), and structural equation modeling was used. The results reveal that environmental identity and a variety of negative emotional affects, as well as group efficacy, accompanied by hope for a simultaneous additive effect, are critical when it comes to predicting environmental collective action.

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EIMECA: A Proposal for a Model of Collective Environmental Actions

10.20944/preprints202102.0561.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Beatriz Carmona-Moya ◽

Antonia Calvo-Salguero ◽

M.Carmen Aguilar-Luzón

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Psychosocial Factors ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Environmental Action ◽

Environmental Identity ◽

Group Efficacy ◽

Negative Affects ◽

Environmental Actions

The deterioration and destruction of the environment is becoming more and more considerable and greater efforts are needed to stop it. To accomplish this feat, all members of society must identify with environmental problems, with collective environmental action being one of the most relevant means of doing so. From this perspective, the analysis of the psychosocial factors that lead to participation in environmental collective action emerges as a priority objective in the research agenda. Thus, the aim of this study is to examine the role of "environmental identity" as conceptualized by Clayton, as a central axis for explaining environmental collective action. The inclusion of the latter in the theoretical framework of the SIMCA model gives rise to the model that we have called EIMECA. Two studies were conducted, and the results reveal that environmental identity, a variety of negative affects, as well as group efficacy accompanied by hope for a simultaneous additive effect, are critical when it comes to predicting environmental collective action.

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Beyond Institutional Collective Action: Why and When Do Metropolitan Governments Collaborate?

State and Local Government Review ◽

10.1177/0160323x19884618 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 51 (3) ◽

pp. 197-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Manlio F. Castillo

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Local Governments ◽

Costs And Benefits ◽

Institutional Collective Action ◽

Institutional Structures ◽

Management Capabilities

The essay explores why and when metropolitan governments collaborate beyond the assumptions of the Institutional Collective Action (ICA) framework. It claims that metropolitan governments not only create collaborative arrangements after comparing their costs and benefits, or when spontaneously their agendas get aligned. This article argues that the success of metropolitan interlocal collaboration also rests on the proclivity to collaboration of independent local governments’ institutional structures, which, in turn, depends on how local governments and their management capabilities have been shaped and evolved, both individually and comparatively with neighboring governments. Additionally, the article classifies and explains four basic models of metropolitan collaborative arrangements.

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Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework

Policy Studies Journal ◽

10.1111/psj.12392 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Serena Y. Kim ◽

William L. Swann ◽

Christopher M. Weible ◽

Thomas Bolognesi ◽

Rachel M. Krause ◽

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Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Institutional Collective Action

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Institutional Collective Action on Drugs: Functional and Vertical Dilemmas of Unused Pharmaceuticals

Review of Policy Research ◽

10.1111/ropr.12406 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Monica Hubbard ◽

Luke Fowler

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Institutional Collective Action

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An Agenda for Comparing Local Governance and Institutional Collective Action in Canada and the United States

Urban Affairs Review ◽

10.1177/1078087417738094 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 858-886 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eric S. Zeemering

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Collective Action ◽

Local Governments ◽

Comparative Research ◽

Local Governance ◽

The United States ◽

Government Reform ◽

Institutional Collective Action ◽

And Performance ◽

International Border

As neighboring federal systems, Canada and the United States provide an opportunity to compare institutional collective action (ICA) by proximate local governments. After explaining the importance of understanding local governance in Canada and the United States in comparative context, the ICA framework is used to highlight propositions along two paths of inquiry. First, the ICA framework can be used to compare responses to ICA dilemmas in two distinct systems of local governance, focusing on the comparative instance of use and performance of ICA mechanisms. Second, the ICA framework can be used to analyze collaboration and paradiplomacy across the international border. Deploying the ICA framework for comparative research can improve our understanding of local governance and local government reform in both countries.

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