Keeping Your Enemies Close
The Role of Distrust in Structuring a Local Hydraulic Fracturing Policy Network in New York
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6295076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeongyoon Lee (0000-0002-6991-1238, Ball State University, corresponding author), Jennifer Dodge (0000-0002-9167-5112, University at Albany, State University of New York) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-192 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1858 • E-ISSN: 1477-9803 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jopart/muy074 |
| OpenAlex | W2944435248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 70 |
Explaining the mechanisms that structure policy networks is an important subject of public management research as networks are key mechanisms of convening actors across public, private, and nonprofit sectors to design and implement public policies. Previous research focuses on the positive role of trust in building network structures in the context of social service delivery. But many policy networks can be adversarial, particularly those that operate in a regulatory context. We know little about the role of distrust in building network structures in this context. This study conceptualizes distrust as a distinct concept from the absence of trust, and examines why stakeholders stay connected with distrusted stakeholders in a regulatory policy network. Using a mixed-method analysis of a local hydraulic fracturing policy network in New York, we found that actors stay connected with stakeholders they distrust to perform information processing, bridging, and demarcating operations, which in turn create reciprocating, bridging and/or bonding structures. Our findings suggest three implications for public management research relevant to both regulatory and service networks: distrust can create network connectivity, connectivity can structure networks in particular ways, and brokers do not reduce transaction costs if they lack skills in principled engagement
Bridging (networking · Business · Computer security · Context (archaeology · Distrust · Industrial organization · Knowledge management · Political science · Public relations · Service (business · Structuring · Transaction cost · Computer Science · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research · Marketing
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Compatibility of the Incompatible
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Trust and distrust in public governance settings
Exploring power imbalance in reciprocal scientific information sharing within a hydraulic fracturing policy subsystem
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Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms
The multifaceted nature of trust in the uptake of advice
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Identity-based subgroups and information exchange in adversarial policy networks
Compliance under distrust
Shared Positions on Divisive Beliefs Explain Interorganizational Collaboration
Legislative capacity, bureaucratic reputation, and delegation from a trust perspective
The Organizational State
Structural Holes
Managing Uncertainties in Networks
Nonrespondents in Communication Network Studies
Models of Interpersonal Trust Development
Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities
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Not So Different After All
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Missing data in networks
Foes to Friends
Trust and Distrust as Distinct Concepts
Crowded Advocacy
Between Trust and Suspicion
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Democracy and Governance Networks
Collaborative and adversarial analysis in environmental policy
The value of distrust
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Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice
Generalized Trust in Multi-organizational Policy Arenas
The Environmental Performance of Participatory and Collaborative Governance
Coalitions, Science, and Belief Change
Governance network theory
Dealing with bad guys
Belief Systems and Social Capital as Drivers of Policy Network Structure
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An Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance
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Treating Policy Brokers Seriously
Network Management Reconsidered
Influences on the Size and Scope of Networks for Social Service Delivery
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The Politics of Connections
Structural and Institutional Determinants of Influence Reputation
Modes of Network Governance
Then Let's Have a Dialogue
Governing the Hollow State
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Understanding policy change with the advocacy coalition framework
Conceptual and methodological considerations in the study of trust and suspicion
Trust, Distrust and Consensus
Suspicious spirits, flexible minds
Social Science Concepts
Trust and suspicion
Qualitative Data Analysis
Collaborative Governance in Theory and Practice
The Devil Shift
A Dilemma of State Power
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| Citations per year | 3.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |