Exploring the Strategic Region
Rationality, Context, and Institutional Collective Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6403771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ole Johan Andersen (University College of Bodö, Norway), J Pierre (0000-0002-1523-3603, University College of Bodö, Norway, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 218-240 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1078087410367756 |
| OpenAlex | W2027511185 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 32 |
The article elaborates the concept of strategic regions which refers to bottom-up processes of inter-local cooperation. In a larger number of countries strategic regions are viewed as an attractive strategy to assist local governments in their pursuit or managing increasing costs in service delivery. In this article we first critically inspect rational choice-based models of interlocal cooperation and point out a couple of issues where they can be further refined and elaborated. Here, we focus particularly on the logic of incentives and transaction costs pertaining to the selection of tasks for collective action; the configuration of the actors; and the democratic deficit issue. The article then discusses alternative schemas for explanation of the formation or non-formation of inter-local partnerships; collective history, local identities and “bounded rationality” may prescribe or prevent partnership formation
Action (physics · Bounded rationality · Business · Collective action · Context (archaeology · Economics · General partnership · Incentive · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Transaction cost · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Political Systems and Governance · Public Policy and Administration Research
The Democratic Legitimacy of Intermunicipal Cooperation
The Quest for Good Urban Governance
A policy-centred approach to inter-municipal cooperation
Developing city-regional governance capacity
Cost-efficiency and public interest in inter-local partnerships
Multi-level governance of regional economic development in Norway and Sweden
A win–win strategy for environmental governance – role of exogenous personalised gains
Applying an Institutional Collective Action Framework to Investigate Intermunicipal Cooperation in Europe
Where is ‘the local’ in localization? Exploring socio-technical and spatial visions of energy system decarbonization in South Wales
Exploring regional aspects of intermunicipal cooperation
Drinking water risk management
Paving the (Hard) Way for Regional Partnerships
Local Autonomy or National Equality? A Conflict of Values and Interests for Political Leaders
What about metropolitan citizenship? Attitudinal attachment of residents to their city-region
Regional Partnerships and Metropolitan Economic Development
Competition and Local Government's Choice Between Informal and Formal Collaborative Mechanisms
Exploring new systems of regionalism
Inter-municipal relations in city-region governance
Institutional Collective Action Issues in Nonprofit Self-Organized Collaboration
Legitimacy in Interlocal Partnerships
Assessing local elected officials’ concerns about interlocal agreements
Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability
Theories of the Policy Process
What Happens to the Urban Periphery? The Political Tensions of Postindustrial Redevelopment in Milan
Regionalism Redux
Explaining the Emergence of Indigenous–Local Intergovernmental Relations in Settler Societies
Public Gardens as Sustainable Community Development Partners
Information Sharing as a Dimension of Smartness
An Agenda for Comparing Local Governance and Institutional Collective Action in Canada and the United States
Regional Governance Networks
The Institutional Collective Action Framework
Updating the Institutional Collective Action Framework
Drivers and barriers of inter-municipal cooperation in health services – the Norwegian case
Local government advocacy in the ‘suburban age
From Competition to Cooperation
Making sense of financial incentive as a policy tool for the independent arts sector
Conflict on the Red River
Decentralization is Dead, Long Live Decentralization! Capital City Reform and Political Rights in Kampala, Uganda
Asymmetry in inter-municipal cooperation in health services - How does it affect service quality and autonomy
The power of enthusiasm in collaborative innovation
The moral commonwealth
The New Public Management in Action
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
Governing Complex Societies
The State and the City
The Logic of Collective Action
Institutionalism "Old" and "New"
Understanding Institutional Diversity
Varieties of city regionalism and the quest for political cooperation
Can Politicians Bargain with Business
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc? Path dependency and punctuated equilibria in European aviation safety regulation
Rational Choice and Regional Governance
Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern
A Bottom-Up Perspective on Innovations
US Regionalism and Rationality
Changing Patterns of Regional Governance in the EU
Institutional Ties, Transaction Costs, and External Service Production
Metropolitan Governance and Institutional Collective Action
Whither Metropolitan Governance
Public–Private Partnerships
The Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks
Local Government and Governance in Norway
Federations of Municipalities
Rational Choice vs. Program-based Behavior
The Rational and the Ambivalent in the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 39 |