Conflict on the Red River: Applying the institutional collective action framework to regional 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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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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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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The Influence of Contextual Factors on Collective Actions for Locating Facilities with Externalities: Applying the Institutional Collective Action Framework

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps27104 ◽

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.

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

Revista de Administração Pública ◽

10.1590/0034-761220190237x ◽

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.

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Local Government Networks

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190228217.013.22 ◽

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.

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Preliminary results of the study on the reasons of the Hai Hau erosion phenomenon

Vietnam Journal of Mechanics ◽

10.15625/0866-7136/29/3/5550 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 415-426

Author(s):

Pham Van Ninh ◽

Phan Ngoc Vinh ◽

Nguyen Manh Hung ◽

Dinh Van Manh

Keyword(s):

Mathematical Modeling ◽

Historical Data ◽

Middle Part ◽

Red River ◽

Erosion Process ◽

Red River Delta ◽

The North ◽

Severe Erosion ◽

North And South ◽

Very High

Overall the evolution process of the Red River Delta based on the maps and historical data resulted in a fact that before the 20th century all the Nam Dinh coastline was attributed to accumulation. Then started the erosion process at Xuan Thuydistrict and from the period of 1935 - 1965 the most severe erosion was contributed in the stretch from Ha Lan to Hai Trieu, 1965 - 1990 in Hai Chinh - Hai Hoa, 1990 - 2005 in the middle part of Hai Chinh - Hai Thinh (Hai Hau district). The adjoining stretches were suffered from not severe erosion. At the same time, the Ba Lat mouth is advanced to the sea and to the North and South direction by the time with a very high rate.The first task of the mathematical modeling of coastal line evolution of Hai Hau is to evaluate this important historical marked periods e. g. to model the coastal line at the periods before 1900, 1935 - 1965; 1965 - 1990; 1990 - 2005. The tasks is very complicated and time and working labors consuming.In the paper, the primarily results of the above mentioned simulations (as waves, currents, sediments transports and bottom - coastal lines evolution) has been shown. Based on the obtained results, there is a strong correlation between the protrusion magnitude and the southward moving of the erosion areas.

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