De-politicised effects with networked governance? An event ethnography study on education trade fairs

We focus on networked arrangements of digital resources that are shared among otherwise independent units to advance conceptual and empirical insights about their governance. We are motivated by the simple observation that, increasingly, independent organizations are engaging in shared activities, often relying on purpose-built digital infrastructures to support this move to inter-dependence. To advance current conceptualizations of networked governance, we draw on data from 42 public safety networks and use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. We do so because fsQCA allows us to account for the realities of inter-dependence among the concepts and variables we consider and to illuminate the multiple viable governance patterns that are possible. The results show the importance of network-level governance competencies to manage stakeholders and information infrastructure to achieve high effectiveness of PSN. Analysis makes clear that there exist five configurations of PSN governance practices that enable high levels of network governance effectiveness. Common to all these configurations are the network-level competence in managing both stakeholders and the digital infrastructure, suggesting these are necessary (but not sufficient) network-level governance competencies. Building from the analysis, we advance the role of specific network-level governance competencies, and the current conceptualization of network governance more broadly.

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Networked Governance, Transnational Business and the Law

10.1007/978-3-642-41212-7 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Networked Governance ◽

The Law

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Introduction: Networks and Networked Governance

Networked Governance, Transnational Business and the Law ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-41212-7_1 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 3-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mark Fenwick ◽

Steven Van Uytsel ◽

Stefan Wrbka

Keyword(s):

Networked Governance

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Endogenous Transformations in European Public Administration: Soft-Law, Transnationally Networked Governance as a Self-Reinforcing Trend

Public Administration and the Modern State ◽

10.1057/9781137437495_15 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 223-237

Author(s):

Joseph Corkin ◽

Nina Boeger

Keyword(s):

Public Administration ◽

Soft Law ◽

Networked Governance ◽

European Public

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Networked Governance and Carbon Accounting in Ottawa

10.1017/9781108974912.006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 46-57

Author(s):

Matthew Paterson ◽

Kofi Agyapong Adomako

Keyword(s):

Carbon Accounting ◽

Networked Governance

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5. Leave It to the People

10.1093/hepl/9780198851745.003.0005 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 101-124

Author(s):

John S. Dryzek

Keyword(s):

Problem Solving ◽

Dispute Resolution ◽

Social Problem Solving ◽

Public Consultation ◽

Policy Dialogue ◽

Liberal Democracies ◽

Networked Governance ◽

The People ◽

Citizen Deliberation ◽

Degree Of Participation

This chapter treats democracy as a way of approaching problems through involving a variety of interests and actors along with citizens in interactive problem solving within the basic institutional structure of liberal capitalist democracy. It is manifested in for example public consultation, alternative dispute resolution, policy dialogue, lay citizen deliberation, and public inquiries. The turn from government to more decentralized and networked governance can be seen as a kind of democratic pragmatism, though networks do not always enhance democracy. This problem solving must be a flexible process that involves many voices and cooperation across a plurality of perspectives. The degree of participation with which pragmatists are happy often corresponds to existing liberal democracies and enables congruence between the demands of rationality in social problem solving and democratic values, though efforts exist to deepen both the democratic and problem-solving capacity of participation.

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Political Invisibility and Migrants’ Networked Governance Strategies in Ecuador

The Invisibility Bargain ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197538692.003.0007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 183-226

Author(s):

Jeffrey D. Pugh

Keyword(s):

Collective Action ◽

Human Security ◽

Host Population ◽

Border Zone ◽

Coalition Building ◽

Networked Governance ◽

Northern Border ◽

Governance Strategies ◽

Governance Network ◽

Peace And Development

Chapter 7 illustrates how the invisibility bargain has shaped the opportunities and limitations constraining Colombian migrants in Ecuador, and how they have responded to pursue access to rights, resources, recognition, and protection. It shows that the strategies that migrants pursue most often are those that are individual and do not require collective action, but that the strategies that work are those that do not require overt claims made on the state that could invoke a backlash from the host population. Instead, informal brokering, indirect strategies, and coalition building were all associated with better access to the governance network, and as a result, better human security outcomes. The empirical cases of the 2008 constitution, Enhanced Registration, and the Interagency Program for Peace and Development in the northern border zone illustrate the mechanisms through which networked governance has improved migrant human security in Ecuador, as well as the limitations and risks.

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