{"title":"The Embedded Network: Institutional Constraints on Collaborative Governance in Indonesia's Aviation Safety Program","authors":"Oke Hendra, Eko Prasojo, Reza Fathurrahman","doi":"10.1111/gove.70100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70100","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Why do collaborative governance reforms so often falter in non-Western states with deep administrative traditions? This article argues that while managerial practice is relevant, the primary cause of these shortcomings lies in macro-level institutional constraints that powerfully shape network outcomes. Through a qualitative case study of Indonesia's mandated State Safety Program (SSP), we trace the network's observed meso-level pathologies—a weak ad hoc hub and fragmentation—to their macro-level institutional origins. Our analysis identifies three primary constraining forces: path dependency stemming from macro-policy, the historical legacy of a siloed state, and friction from entrenched bureaucratic logics. The primary contribution of this research is to advance institutional theory by specifying a clear multi-level causal mechanism linking macro-level state institutional constraints to the network's meso-level structure and its micro-level procedural dysfunctions. We conclude that for collaborative governance to be effective, reform efforts must shift from improving micro-level behaviors to strategically targeting the fundamental institutional “rules of the game”.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Administrative Burdens as a Mechanism of Distributive Politics: How Organizational Brokers and Politicians Exploit Access Burdens to Social Housing in Mexico City","authors":"Rik Peeters, Miguel Ángel Brito Sánchez","doi":"10.1111/gove.70099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70099","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article presents a case study of Mexico City's social housing policy to expand our understanding of administrative burdens as a mechanism of political control over access to services and benefits. Faced with excessive and unclear waiting times for obtaining social housing via the city's social housing institute, citizens affiliate with social organizations that promise a reduction of those burdens in exchange for participation in collective protests and political proselytism to both sway and pressure local authorities and politicians to grant funding for housing projects and speed up construction permits. Vulnerable citizens in need of housing are captured in a political economy of administrative burdens conditioned by resource shortages in the formal bureaucracy and political leverage over the reduction of burdens. Understanding how political patronage may become engrained in policy implementation is relevant for the Global South but also for other contexts where concerns are growing over the weaponization of the state for political gain.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145750737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Public's Willingness to Pay More Local Taxes to Deal With Wild Animals in the City","authors":"Itai Beeri","doi":"10.1111/gove.70098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since Earth has entered the Anthropocene era, municipalities face growing challenges in managing interactions between humans and nature. Yet, limited research addresses the actual practices of coping with such situations, particularly within public administration, policy, and politics. To date, no systematic theory or methodology adequately captures the dynamics of animals as political agents, local governance, and policy support. Recent studies have begun to close this gap by examining governance and political participation in response to wild boars, support for local environmental morality policies, and the governance challenges posed by perceived harm. Building on these contributions, the present study introduces willingness to pay additional local taxes as a novel indicator of policy support, linking human–wildlife interactions to public finance, distributive fairness, and citizen compliance. Drawing on a quantitative, large-scale survey experiment (2020) and a choice-based conjoint analysis, supplemented by longitudinal trend indicators (2019–2024) for contextualization, we examine the individual, environmental, and political factors shaping residents' support for a local policy aimed at addressing urban environmental challenges. We use respondents' willingness to pay more taxes as a proxy for their support of the policy. Our findings show that individual and environmental factors negatively influence this willingness, whereas political incentives exert a positive effect. Unexpectedly, greater access to policy information generated information overload, which reduced public support. We conclude by discussing the implications of these findings for urban politics, approaches to managing wild animals in cities, and support for local environmental policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.70098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steven J. Balla, Christopher Carrigan, Colin Emrich, Sean Paul
{"title":"In the Midnight Hour: Participatory Opportunities in Regulatory Policymaking During Presidential Transitions","authors":"Steven J. Balla, Christopher Carrigan, Colin Emrich, Sean Paul","doi":"10.1111/gove.70095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70095","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We examine opportunities for stakeholder participation in regulatory policymaking in the U.S. during the midnight period, the 3 months between the presidential election in November and the inauguration of the winning candidate the following January. During partisan presidential transitions, do agencies—in a sprint to the regulatory finish line—limit stakeholder participation? We develop a novel typology of midnight regulations and construct an original data set of nearly 1000 rules developed during several presidential administrations. Our analysis demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, midnight regulations do not exhibit a deficiency in participatory opportunities. In fact, rules proposed early in presidential terms that are promulgated during midnight periods are characterized by relatively expansive opportunities for participation. Normatively, the robustness of opportunities for participation during presidential transitions suggests that midnight regulations do not suffer from a lack of democratic legitimacy, at least with respect to inviting stakeholder input.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Leader, New Policy? Bureaucratic Turnover and Policy Stability in China","authors":"Zhiwei Liu","doi":"10.1111/gove.70094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70094","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the relationship between bureaucratic turnover and policy stability in China, arguing that the effect of promotion competition on policy choice is not static but has undergone a fundamental inversion. While the existing literature suggests competition incentivized policy innovation in the pre-2012 era, we theorize that the logic has been inverted. Drawing on a dataset of 267 prefecture-level cities from 2005 to 2015, we first confirm that leadership turnover significantly reduces policy stability. More importantly, our structural break analysis reveals that in the post-2012 era of heightened political discipline, intense competition now compels officials towards policy stability as a risk-averse strategy for career advancement. This study provides direct evidence of a temporal shift in bureaucratic incentives, refining our understanding of governance in non-Western centralized states.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145686154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joan-Josep Vallbé, Carmen Ramírez-Folch, Mario Lozano-Martín
{"title":"Glass Ceiling or Merit? Gender, Promotion, and Judicial Careers in a Civil Law System","authors":"Joan-Josep Vallbé, Carmen Ramírez-Folch, Mario Lozano-Martín","doi":"10.1111/gove.70096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines how institutional mechanisms shape gender disparities in judicial promotion within a career-based civil-law system, where judges advance through merit-based hierarchies punctuated by discretionary appointments to higher courts. By design, civil-law judiciaries are typically governed by bureaucratic, merit-based promotion procedures. Yet even in such systems, women remain underrepresented in senior judicial positions. We develop a model to distinguish between two mechanisms— promotion aversion and sex discrimination—and derive empirically testable implications. Drawing on a unique longitudinal dataset covering the full careers of nearly 7000 Spanish judges from 2005 to 2023, we combine survival models, matched mixed-effects regressions, and data on voluntary specialization exams to analyze career advancement. Our results show that promotion aversion and sex discrimination operate at different stages of judicial careers: women who apply for promotion are highly qualified and successful in early-career moves, but face structural barriers in later discretionary appointments. These findings challenge assumptions about the neutrality of bureaucratic promotion systems and underscore the role of institutional discretion in reproducing inequality. The paper contributes to comparative studies of career public servants and the governance of judicial hierarchies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.70096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145695068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dominik Beckers, Luca Mora, Federico Platania, Paolo Gerli
{"title":"There Is No Rose Without a Thorn: Examining the Contribution of Collaborative Platforms to Sustaining Collaborative Governance","authors":"Dominik Beckers, Luca Mora, Federico Platania, Paolo Gerli","doi":"10.1111/gove.70090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates the extent to which collaborative platforms contribute to strengthening the collaborative governance capacity of municipal governments, focusing on smart city development as an empirical context. Drawing on survey data from 289 municipal government officials and using a multinomial logit model, we test eight hypotheses linking collaborative platforms to key dimensions of collaborative governance: knowledge sharing, innovation culture, competences, strategic orientation, monitoring, vertical and internal coordination, and decision-making power. Our findings challenge the prevailing assumption that such platforms are uniformly beneficial. While their presence might support some collaborative governance dimensions, their contribution is less certain in others. Moreover, in some cases, our data shows that municipalities managing collaborative governance initiatives by means of a collaborative platform might perform just as well or even worse than those without one. These results suggest that expectations about collaborative platforms should be more carefully calibrated. By critically examining the contribution of collaborative platforms across key dimensions of collaborative governance, this study advances theoretical understanding and offers actionable insights for municipal platform managers and policymakers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.70090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145619241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic, Annamaria Simonazzi
{"title":"United in Diversity? EU Core-Periphery Divides at the Time of the Green Transition","authors":"Dario Guarascio, Jelena Reljic, Annamaria Simonazzi","doi":"10.1111/gove.70089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70089","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This work analyses the structural implications of the green transition and of the ‘new industrial policy’ aimed at achieving its main goals. Focusing on the European case, a thorough mapping of the structural factors–i.e., share of energy intensive industries, green technological capabilities, green state aid–potentially shaping the distribution of costs and benefits among countries is provided. Building on this mapping, the EU's green industrial policy is thoroughly analyzed, assessing whether it is going to exacerbate internal divides, further weakening the EU in the new global context; or to revitalize convergence, with the periphery catching up in terms of productive and technological capabilities. We show that, although broad and well-articulated, the EU's green industrial policy strategy does not seem apt to the task of pursuing the twofold goal of accelerating the green transition and fostering internal convergence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145581034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State Capacity, Social Fragmentation, and Public Goods Provision: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis","authors":"Jiali Shen","doi":"10.1111/gove.70088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70088","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigates why state capacity does not always translate into improved public goods provision. I argue that the effect of state capacity depends critically on state–society interactions, which are shaped by regime type and, more decisively, by social fragmentation. While existing research often assumes a uniformly positive impact of capacity, this study shows otherwise. In democracies, institutionalized responsiveness ensures that higher capacity consistently enhances provision, regardless of fragmentation. In authoritarian states, however, outcomes hinge on the degree of social fragmentation: where fragmentation is high, strong states provide more goods to mitigate conflict and maintain legitimacy; where society is cohesive, high capacity may instead be diverted to elite projects, exclusionary distribution, or control. Using panel data on 177 countries (1960–2015), I demonstrate that state capacity's effect is conditional, not absolute. These findings highlight how social fragmentation, interacting with political regime, fundamentally shapes the governance returns of state capacity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145581232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between Law and Politics—The Emergence of an EU Industrial Policy","authors":"Paul Dermine, Maria Patrin","doi":"10.1111/gove.70085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do law and politics interact in shaping the relationship between the state and markets? To what extent can the law break free from the political and ideological beliefs which brought it about, and be repurposed to adjust to evolving assumptions and a new political-economic <i>Zeitgeist</i>? This paper explores how the dynamics between law and politics play out in the context of the European Union as a multi-level polity, where economic powers and prerogatives are distributed across different levels of government and where the central government enjoys limited, conferred powers. Drawing on the “Integration through Law” literature and institutional change theories, the paper investigates the evolution of EU industrial policy and its legal architecture. It lays out the legal rules and conditions under which industrial policy has traditionally operated in the EU. It further discusses how this framework is shifting following changing economic and political priorities that favor more activist forms of economic and industrial policy. The paper argues that the law can both act as a constraining, limiting factor, or as an enabler of EU industrial policy initiatives. On the one hand primary law principles and competences fundamentally inhibit the pursuit of activist industrial policies in Europe. On the other hand, a number of second-order resources can be mobilized and “converted” to bring about an EU industrial policy. The paper finally reflects on the risks and challenges of repurposing legal rules for political ends, highlighting issues of consistency, efficiency and legitimacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.70085","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145580955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}