LIST OF WORKSHOPS

The papers in this workshop examine an array of collaboration mechanisms available to coordinate the actions of local governments to mitigate local and regional dilemmas of fragmented authority that characterize a federalist system and even unitary systems. In metropolitan regions authority to address public problems can be fragmented vertically among levels of government, horizontally among local governments, or functionally among agencies and bureaus. Fragmented authority produces institutional collective action dilemmas when lack on integration results in spillovers or loss of scale economies. This workshop brings together research to understand these dilemmas and the collaborative mechanisms to mitigate them. Informal types of agreements impose fewer restrictions on participants because they are flexible, voluntary, and do not require local governments to give up autonomy but they are unlikely to be sustained if participants face “collaboration risks” of not being able to coordinate on a course of action, not being able to agree to division of costs, or not being able to prevent others from reneging or free riding following agreement.

One focus is on how regional governance systems and intergovernmental collaboration relationships shape policy instrument selection and how political factors affect the initial choice of policy tools also shape the life cycle of these policies from design to implementation, continuation, modification, or termination (Peters, 2002). The research presented will capture the political dynamics of policy instruments throughout their life cycle from the design and adoption of specific policy instruments, and interactions among multiple instruments in implementation.

Potential Papers:

From Plans to Effective Policy Outcomes: The Effect of Administrative Form and Stability on the Success of Cities’ Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Efforts
Rachel Krause, University of Kansas
Angela Park, University of Kansas

Policy Tool Choices and Policy Contexts in Environmental Policy?

M.J. Moon, Yonsei University
B.J. Cho, Yonsei University

“Governmental Capacity and Regional Collaboration”
Jessica Terman, George Mason University

Network Analysis of Interlocal Economic Development Collaboration in Rural Metropolitan Areas

Chang-Gyu Kwak, Sam Houston State University
Sungwook Kwon, Texas Tech University

When Do Local Governments Collaborate for Economic Development? Evidence from Joint Infrastructure Development Projects in Metropolitan Areas
Brian An, University of Southern California
Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University
Raphael Bostic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Advocacy Coalitions in Shale Gas Development in China
Yuan Liu, George Washington University
Hongtao Yi, The Ohio State University
Tanya Heikkila, University of Colorado Denver
Christopher Weible, University of Colorado Denver

Institutions, Regional Governance, and Land-Use Changes: A Comparative Study of Metropolitan Areas in the US and Europe.
Aaron Deslatte, Northern Illinois University
Katarzyna Szmigiel-Rawska, University of Warsaw
Izabela Karsznia, University of Warsaw
António F. Tavares, University of Minho

Policy Learning and Resource Dependency: Regional Sustainability Governance
Aaron Deslatte, Northern Illinois University

Technological Innovation, Alternative Energy Production and Energy Conservation
Taekyoung Lim, Cleveland State University
Tian Tang, Florida State University

Planning and Managing Sustainability Initiatives: How and Why do Cities Codify their Commitments?
Christopher Hawkins, University of Central Florida

Climate Change Policy, Residential Insurance Programs, and Natural Disasters in South Korea.
Hyunwoo Lim, University of North Texas
Jisun Ryu, University of North Texas
Simon A. Andrew, University of North Texas
Vaswati Chatterjee, University of North Texas

Inter-City Competition and Local Government Debts in China: A Spatial Econometric Analysis
Shaoming Cheng, Florida International University
Hai Guo, Florida International University

Urbanization, Development of Science and Technology, and Chinese Exceptionalism
Jill Tao, Incheon National University

Functional Fragmentation and Local Water Governance in China
Hongtao Yi, The Ohio State University

High-Power and Low-Powered Incentives and Public Service Motivation: A Survey Experiment
Namhoon KI, Askew School, Florida State University

Interrelational Embeddedness and Collaboration Risk in Emergency Management: An Institutional Collective Action Analysis
Minsun Song, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Kyujin Jung, Kore Univeristy

Measurement Validity in Urban Sustainability: Advances in Spatial Models of Public Policy Choices
Swann Will Swann, School of Public Affairs, Colorado Denver

Policy Instrument Bundling of Local Land Use Sustainability Tools
Anthony Kassekert, U. S. Homeland Security & Florida State University

Changing Water Resource Management Paradigms in an Authoritarian
Environment
Edgar Ramirez, CIDE, Mexico

This workshop will examine an array of policy instruments and collaborative management mechanisms available to coordinate the actions of local governments to mitigate local and regional dilemmas of fragmented authority that characterize a federalist system and even unitary systems.  Authority to address public problems can be fragmented vertically among levels of government, horizontally among local governments, or functionally among agencies and bureaus. Fragmented authority produces institutional collective action dilemmas when lack on integration results in spillovers or loss of scale economies.  This workshop brings together research to understand these dilemmas and the collaborative mechanisms to mitigate them. Informal types of agreements impose fewer restrictions on participants because they are flexible, voluntary, and do not require local governments to give up autonomy but they are unlikely to be sustained if participants face “collaboration risks” of not being able to coordinate on a course of action, not being able to agree to division of costs, or not being able to prevent others from reneging or free riding following agreement.

Thus the aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars in urban affairs, public administration, and public policy to advance theory and practice of intergovernmental, inter-organizational, and intra-organizational collaboration.  This workshop will present theoretically informed empirical papers that address the challenges of fragmented authority, emphasizing comparative perspectives.

The focus of this workshop is on how regional governance systems and intergovernmental collaboration relationships evolve and how they shape policy instrument selection and implementation. This workshop will both extend and develop, and challenge institutional collective action theories of local and regional policy. In doing so the research presented seeks to capture the political dynamics collaborative governance institutions and policy instruments throughout their life cycle.

Richard Feiock is internationally recognized for his expertise in local government, sustainability, and local democratic institutions. He is a National Academy of Public Administration fellow. He holds the Jerry Collins Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair and is the Augustus B. Turnbull Professor of Public Administration and Policy in the Askew School at Florida State University. He is the founding director of the FSU Local Governance Research Laboratory and served as Ph.D. Program Director for the Askew School from 1999-2004. He directed the Sustainable Energy & Governance unit of FSU’s Institute for Energy Systems, Economics and Sustainability. He served as editor of Public Administration Review the leading professional journal in public administration 2013-2017.

Professor Feiock received his B.A. degree from Pennsylvania State University, and his M.P.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. He is a recipient of the Herbert Kaufman best paper award from the Section on Public Administration, American Political Science Association, the 2008 William E. and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article published in Public Administration Review, the 2009 Manning J. Dauer Award for research and service from the Florida Political Science Association, the 2010 Donald C. Stone Award for career contributions to the field of intergovernmental management from the American Society for Public Administration, the 2011 Marshall Dimock Award for the best lead article published in Public Administration Review, and the 2014 APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award. In 2015, he was appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Board of Scientific Counselors HSC. He was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration in 2014.

Professor Feiock served as major professor for forty Ph.D. dissertations. In 2011, he was the recipient of the Florida State University Graduate Faculty Mentor Award.  Professor Feiock has generated 2.5 million in external research grant funds and has been principal investigator or co-pi on eight National Science Foundation research grants as well as grant awards from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Aspen Institute, IBM Center for the Business of Government, CH2M Hill and the Fulbright Scholar Program. Professor Feiock has published five books and over one-hundred refereed articles. His work appears in the leading scholarly journals of political science, public administration, planning and urban affairs. His books and edited volumes include Institutional Constraints and Local Government (SUNY Press), City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives (M.E. Sharpe), Metropolitan Governance: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Georgetown University Press) and Self-organizing Federalism (Cambridge University Press).