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Does the Network Centrality of Government Actors Matter? Examining the Role of Government Organizations in Aquaculture Partnerships
Author(s) -
Resh William,
Siddiki Saba,
McConnell Will R.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
review of policy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1541-1338
pISSN - 1541-132X
DOI - 10.1111/ropr.12101
Subject(s) - centrality , collaborative governance , government (linguistics) , corporate governance , construct (python library) , scholarship , incentive , public relations , collective action , action (physics) , political science , business , public administration , sociology , economics , law , philosophy , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , politics , computer science , programming language , linguistics , mathematics , combinatorics , microeconomics
The growth in the use of collaborative governance arrangements has been accompanied by burgeoning scholarship in the field of public affairs that seeks to understand the benefits of engaging diverse stakeholders in common venues. However, few scholars have formally assessed the role of government actors in facilitating outcomes for individual participants in such efforts. Moreover, little work on collaborative governance examines how individual incentives and barriers to collective action are formed within the nested nature of these contexts. We contribute to the study of collaborative governance by formally investigating how the relative centrality of government actors in collaborative policy‐making venues affects individual relationship building and learning for participants therein. We find that government actor centrality is positively associated with relationship building and learning. However, in testing two different conceptualizations of “centrality,” we find that the definition of this construct clearly matters.