Local Government Networks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj K. Shrestha ◽  
Richard C. Feiock
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
Institutional Collective Action ◽  
Current State ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Made In

Local governments frequently network with other local governments or other entities for efficient or effective delivery of local services. Networks enable local governments to discover ways to address externalities and diseconomies of scale produced by political fragmentation, functional interconnection, and uneven distribution of knowledge and resources. Local government networking can be informal or formal and bilateral or multilateral, in the form of deliberative forums or mutual aid agreements. This chapter uses the institutional collective action framework to underscore the link between problems of coordination and credibility of commitment that local governments face as they seek self-organizing solutions and the bridging and bonding networks they create in response to these problems. It then reviews the current state of scholarship in local government networks (LGNs) and shows that much progress has been made in both egocentric and whole LGN studies. Finally, it highlights important areas needing attention to advance LGN scholarship.

Local governance and the crisis of water and sanitation provision in medium-sized urban centres: Evidence from three cities in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 026909422110353
Author(s):  
Kayode J Samuel ◽  
Samuel B Agbola ◽  
Olorunfemi A Olojede
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
The People ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Effective Delivery ◽  
Basic Services

Local governance encompasses the involvement of local governments and other community-based organizations in participatory decision-making for efficient delivery of public services. In the developing world, however, the weakness of the local government and local governance has inhibited the efficient and effective delivery of these services. Relying on water and sanitation data and interviews of relevant officials, this study analyses the structure of governance of water supply and sanitation (WSS) at the community levels in selected medium-sized urban centres in Nigeria. Results showed that majority of the city dwellers lacked access to safe water and sanitation, an indication of convoluted, poorly regulated provision regimes and the waning capacity of local governments to galvanize local actions towards the efficient provision and management of these services at community levels. Multiple provision regimes, weak coordinating and regulatory frameworks characterize WSS governance. Further, the sub-national authorities’ encroachment on local government funds which deprived these tiers of government the resources they could have used in providing these essential services presents a major setback. Local governments require financial and constitutional autonomy to provide basic services to the people and supervise and coordinate the activities of other governmental and non-governmental actors involved in service provision.

scholarly journals The Quality of Life of Suburbanities: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Masik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Made In

The Quality of Life of Suburbanities: A Case Study of the Gdańsk Agglomeration The article explains the meaning of the concept of ‘quality of life’, placing emphasis on its subjective dimension. As the concept is more and more discussed in the literature, the author intends to examine the satisfaction within public spaces for which local government is responsible. According to research made in Canada it is worth measuring not only satisfaction as such but also the importance of its constituent dynamics. Therefore, a survey made in the suburbs of the Gdańsk agglomeration asked respondents about their satisfaction with public transport, roads, environment, etc., including questions about the relative importance of such issues. The combination of satisfaction and importance provide the overall quality of life. At the end of the paper the author considers if there is a chance to improve the quality of life through a brief analysis of local governments expenditure.

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

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
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.

Different Demands, Varying Responses: Local Government Responses to Workers’ Collective Actions in South China

2019 ◽  
Vol 243 ◽  
pp. 839-854
Author(s):  
Yujeong Yang ◽  
Wei Chen
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Security ◽  
South China ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Collective Actions

AbstractWhile Chinese local governments remain extremely wary of workers’ collective actions, they do not always suppress them; sometimes, they tolerate such actions and even seek to placate workers. What accounts for these different government responses to workers’ collective actions? Based on a sample of over 1,491 collective action cases that took place in Guangdong between 2011 and 2016, we find that the types of demands raised by workers during collective actions affect how local governments respond. Local governments are likely to forcefully intervene in collective actions in which workers make defensive claims concerning issues of payment. In contrast, local governments are likely to use non-forceful approaches in response to actions in which workers make defensive claims regarding social security.

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

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 858-886 ◽  
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.

scholarly journals The Influence of Contextual Factors on Collective Actions for Locating Facilities with Externalities: Applying the Institutional Collective Action Framework

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-85
Author(s):  
Park Jong Sun
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Dump Site ◽  
Private Goods ◽  
Institutional Collective Action ◽  
Excessive Competition

This study applies the Institutional Collective Action Framework to two cases: proposals for the construction of Taekwondo Park and the location of a nuclear waste dump site in Booahn. While the proposed park caused excessive competition because its benefits were overestimated and its private goods were considered necessary, the proposed nuclear waste site resulted in excessive conflict because of uncertainty about its potential harms and because its public goods were considered unnecessary. The former case showed homogeneity of political power and cooperation based on trust, whereas the latter case showed heterogeneity of political power and conflict based on distrust. Both cases showed politicians` active participation based on their reelection goals and a blocked network structure between central and local governments. Stakeholders in both cases showed strong internal ties with other stakeholders with similar potential political and economic benefits.

scholarly journals Local Government Debt and Municipal Bonds in China: Problems and a Framework of Rules

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyuan Feng
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Government Debt ◽  
Debt Financing ◽  
Municipal Bonds ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
Fiscal Transparency ◽  
Current State

Local governments in China are facing heavy debt burdens, a low level of fiscal transparency and a lack of constraints by local democracy. Since 2008, local government debts have skyrocketed. This article analyses the current state and features of local government debts and the two kinds of 'quasi municipal bonds' in China—urban investment bonds and local government bonds—along with their problems and risks. It examines the risks connected with local government debts and these bonds from the perspectives of public finance and political economy. It concludes with a discussion of a framework of rules for local government debt financing, especially for the issuance of municipal bonds in China.

scholarly journals Current problems of constitutional regulation of the status of local communities in Ukraine in the context of international experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
О. В. Батанов ◽  
В. В. Кравченко
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Current State ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Municipal Management ◽  
The Status ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
Conceptual Problems

In the article, taking into account foreign experience of development of modern systems of municipal management and practice application of the provisions of new legislation on decentralization highlights the conceptual problems of reforming local government and territorial organization of power in modern Ukraine. Describes the char-acteristics of the legal status of the territorial community as the primary subject of the municipal authorities in Ukraine and foreign countries. Analyzed the current state of the legal status of the territorial community, the basic of the modern constitutional project initiatives in part on local self-government in Ukraine from the position of the principles of classical muncipalism. We separately consider the possible risks with the possibility of introduction in Ukraine of Institute of the prefects and new mechanism of control over activity of local governments, draws attention to the shortcomings of legal support of process of formation of territorial basis of local government - the creation of local com-munities who owned the resource base necessary to ensure compliance with the tasks and powers transferred to local government during the decentralization. Proposed separateproposals to prevent possible conflicts of laws and organizational conflicts that can arise in the application of the provisions of the law of Ukraine «On Association of territorial communities».

scholarly journals An analysis of intermunicipal consortia to provide waste services based on institutional collective action

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 501-523
Author(s):  
Antônio Sérgio Araújo Fernandes ◽  
Lauro Santos Pinheiro ◽  
Alex Bruno F. M. do Nascimento ◽  
Eduardo José Grin
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Institutional Collective Action ◽  
Cooperative Agreements ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Treatment And Disposal ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article analyzes the factors that affect local governments’ decision-making processes on whether to engage in cooperative agreements through intermunicipal consortia. Several studies have examined this issue in Western developed countries, but there is a gap in the literature regarding the phenomenon in the developing world. The research addresses this gap and observes the Brazilian local governments’ policies on waste services, focusing on cooperative agreements such as interlocal consortia. These arrangements may be a solution to the political and managerial challenges of providing public services in many areas, including waste collection, treatment, and disposal. However, it is still unclear what factors influence municipalities in their decision to cooperate. Based on cross-sectional research exploring 963 Brazilian municipalities and on the perspective of Institutional Collective Action, this study identified characteristics of communities, transaction characteristics of goods, and the structure of policy networks that influence the local governments in their decision to work cooperatively. The findings shed light on the field of public policies, particularly those carried out through intermunicipal consortia.

Conflict on the Red River: Applying the institutional collective action framework to regional flood policy

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas G Bauroth
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
Red River ◽  
Cooperative Network ◽  
Institutional Collective Action ◽  
The North ◽  
Interlocal Cooperation ◽  
Flood Diversion ◽  
Flood Policy

In reaction to major flooding, local governments in Minnesota and North Dakota formed a cooperative network to construct a $1.2 billion flood diversion along the Red River of the North. Threatened by this diversion, a second set of governments formed their own network in opposition to flood policy. This study uses propositions derived from the Institutional Collective Action framework to examine formal contracts at the core of these cooperative networks, as well as the circumstances under which the contracts were negotiated. It considers the ability of the framework to understand interlocal cooperation where regional consensus is nonexistent. The study finds that the two sets of governments faced very different transaction costs, resulting in contrasting approaches to governance.

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