Essays on Determinants and Outcomes of Collaborative Governance in the Field of Environmental Management

Download or read book Essays on Determinants and Outcomes of Collaborative Governance in the Field of Environmental Management written by Yixin Liu and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do public organizations and communities collaborate with each other? And what are the social and environmental outcomes of collaborative governance? This dissertation develops three essays to answer both questions. The first essay applies a conjoint experiment to investigate the determinants of interlocal collaboration decisions of U.S. municipal officials. This research extends multiple organizational network theories to organizational decision makers. The findings confirm these theories and offer new insights. The second essay explores the effects of trust in government on citizens' perceived collaborative governance and their willingness to coproduce. Using randomly assigned government integrity information as the instrumental variable of trust, the results reveal complex relations of citizen-state interactions. The third essay examines the outcomes of intergovernmental collaboration in water pollution control in China. Using the water quality panel data with the synthetic control method, this study finds that the mandated collaborative governance model effectively reduced the level of water pollution in an inter-jurisdictional river. Overall, this dissertation explores the theory of collaboration from its initial motivation to its final outcomes. The utilization of various innovative causal identification methods moves the research of collaborative governance a little step forward.