SELF-ORGANIZING FEDERALISM: COLLABORATIVE MECHANISMS TO MITIGATE INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIVE ACTION DILEMMAS - edited by Richard C. Feiock and John T. Scholz

2013 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 517-519
Author(s):  
Mark Rhinard
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Institutional Collective Action ◽  
Self Organizing

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.

Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serena Y. Kim ◽  
William L. Swann ◽  
Christopher M. Weible ◽  
Thomas Bolognesi ◽  
Rachel M. Krause ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Institutional Collective Action

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.

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